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Denmark and Norway ten years of depression—correctly named, ^ CAPTAIN EDDIE WITH into spreading but grossly misunderstood. drawn the European war, which as I There are millions still unemployed RICK EN BACKER write seems also likely to billions of dollars are being paid in addi- engulf Belgium, Holland, Sweden, as well tional taxes—hospitals are still filled with as other countries, there looms before us thousands of veterans, wrecked mentally And if we could have invested the bal- Americans the greatest question we, and physically, all of them once the ance that would have been left in a way as a people, have faced since 191 7. flower of American manhood—someone's that would have brought a rate of five Shall we go in? father, brother or sweetheart, but each percent annually, there would have been Taking into account every known angle one of them some mother's son. sufficient to pay an annual salary, of one of the confused and complex situation in The cost to the world approximated thousand dollars each, to one hundred which the world finds itself today, we two hundred and fifty billion dollars. ?nd twenty-five thousand school teach- must still refuse, as we refused last Sep- With this staggering sum we could have ers, and one hundred and twenty-five tember, to be dragged into this war built homes, costing twenty-five hundred thousand nurses. unless our national safety is imperiled. dollars each, on five acre plots of ground, The cost to these Only twenty-three years ago, we costing one hundred dollars an acre. direct and indirect, continued up to date Americans entered the World War with We could have equipped each of those —has totaled approximately forty-seven a profound conviction that we were fight- homes with a thousand dollars worth of billion dollars. ing for the preservation of Democracy. furniture, and given such a home to If we had placed this staggering sum The close of the World War and subse- every family in Russia, Italy, France, into peacetime circulation—we would quent events during these past twenty- Belgium, Germany, Wales, Scotland, not now have millions of unemployed, three years, have brought about the disil- Ireland, England, Australia, Holland plus the direct loss of fifty thousand lusionment and realization that the win- and the United States of America. men, and approximately two hundred ner and the loser of such a conflict must In those lands we could have given to and fifty thousand casualties. suffer the consequences alike. every community of forty thousand peo- Well could we rid ourselves, with this Our penalty, the same as that of other ple or more, a two-million-dollar library, vast sum, of the slums of our great cities nations, was the complete disruption of a three-million-dollar hospital, and a ten- —the misery and poverty that go with our economic machinery, bringing about million-dollar university. them. (Continued on page 42)

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iforQodandcountry , we associate ourselves togetherjor theJollowiny purposes: (Jo uphold and defend the Constitution «_/ ofthe TdnitedStates ofAmerica; to maintain law and order; tofoster andperpetuate a one hundredpercent Americanism to preserve the memories and incidents ofour association in theQreatlVar; to inculcate a sense of"individual obligation to the com- munity,siate andnation; to combat the autocracy ofboth the classes andthe masses; to make right the master ofmight; to promote peace andgood willon earth ; to safguardand transmit to posterity the principles ofjustice,_freedom and democracy ; to conse- crate and'sanciifj our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.— Preamble to the Constitution ofThe American Legioa The Jlmerican

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JUNE, 1940 5 "Take hold of the mane," HERBERT said the colonel, "and you MORTON won't bounce up and down STOOPS like that"

"The battle is goin' to last all night, ain't it?" pleaded McGonigal. "Five minutes more or less won't make no difference. Only to me. I'll be split in

two if we keep on like this!" Colonel Tiffany rose and fell in the saddle with the trotting motion of his horse. after noon of an August "I told you when you asked me to let fy, a squadron of cavalry, two you come that this would be rugged," hundred men and horses, trotted said he. "I knew you'd be in the way. swiftly through the woods into the What the hell did you come with the

wilderness of the Herring River Valley. cavalry for if you couldn't ride a horse?" Gun boots slapped, saddles creaked, am- "Ah, gee!" gulped McGonigal. "I'm munition boxes on machine gun led- a free lance journalist. Gotta sell a yarn horses clattered and bounced. The pace about this sham battle or I'll be out two was terrific, the horses lathered with ex- days' jack for eats an' train fare. I ast 'em citement. Men's hats blew off, to hang in the press bureau where to go to get a about their necks by the chin straps, while good yarn an' they says, 'Go with the

the yellow hat cords that marked their cavalry, it'll be a riot.' owners as cavalrymen dangled in the Colonel Tiffany looked grimly ahead wind. At the head of the column a civilian through his horse's ears. LEONARD turned to an officer by whose side he "Why didn't you follow us in a car?" rode. he demanded. H. N ASON "Cheese, Colonel Tiffany," panted the "I got my pride," chattered McGoni- civilian, "where's the fire?" gal, teeth rattling with the pounding of "I have six miles to go in forty-five his horse. "I wouldn't write no yarn minutes, McGonigal!" snapped the colo- about cavalry from an automobile." nel. "Take hold of the mane and you "You could have written it about the won't bounce up and down in your saddle infantry we're going to fight. They're like that!" motorized. All in trucks. Two thousand

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine with hopeful interest. in the step. I got to write a story about "While you're talkin' things over, the tight with the infantry." colonel," said McGonigal, "I'm goin' "There won't be no fight, the way that to slip over there an' have a pop. I'm cavalry was goin'," said the soft drink just about dead from this bumpin'." man. "The infantry all went by here McGonigal steered his horse across the half an hour ago. Headed the other way road and slipped from the saddle with in trucks." the happy sigh of a man getting in bed. "How do yuh know?" Far down the road a lone horseman "Why, I could tell. They all had on waved his hand. blue hat cords. Same as the cavalry "The advance guard signals the road wear yellow. I can tell 'em. I go to all the is clear, sir," said Lieutenant Dunphy. maneuvers." "Let's go! Forward, ho!" McGonigal having reached the saddle, The long column clanked into motion the soft drink man let go the horse's with the dust-raising clatter of a freight head. The impatient steed at once de- train. McGonigal's horse, fearing lest parted down the road, giving, with his companions were going to be fed and McGonigal's wildly waving arms, the "Stand still, will yuh? I want he not be there with them, endeavored impression of a gorged buzzard trying to to go just as bad as you do" to follow them down the road, but Mc- fly. When the horse finally ran himself Gonigal being on foot, and clinging into a state of quiet, there was no sign steadily to the reins, the horse's progress of the squadron. men, a whole brigade, against my poor McGonigal, in despair at ever finding two hundred!" the colonel again, came suddenly from "Gee!" exclaimed McGonigal. "I ain't the wooded highway into open country. no soldier. I'm just a member of the To the west, as far as he could see, were workin' press, but two hundred against rolling pastures, wild woods, isolated two thousand don't make sense." farms, and the forested slopes of Terry "The man in command of the brigade Mountain. The horse, having also de- we are going to fight is a general named spaired of finding the squadron, stopped Heidekooper," explained Colonel Tiffany. and began to crop the grass with fiendish "He's one of the big mainsprings down energy. McGonigal peered far and wide, in Washington. The officers that are shading his hand as he had seen scouts running the maneuver gave him my do in the movies. Suddenly his gaze was squadron to massacre. Like meat to the lions!" "How come?" stuttered McGonigal. "Gee, this horse puts his feet down hard! How come your squadron is meat to the lions?" "Because General Heide- kooper has said that cavalry / has no place on the battlefield. f\ and if he can destroy my squad- ron, he thinks that will prove it." McGonigal flopped along painfully without answering. The column surged out onto a main highway and halted, sweeping under the trees to take shelter against aircraft. Eastward and westward stretched the road, coming out of a wooded valley to the west, curving away toward the ocean to the east. The road was empty. Military police at either end held up civilian traffic so that the opposing forces, Blues and Blacks, might work their will on each other freely and without was a circle with McGonigal as hindrance. An officer, all hung with belts, the center. map, and pistol, clattered up. "Stand still, will yuh?" pleaded "Sir," he reported, "the advance McGonigal. "I want to go just as guard have galloped ahead to see if the bad as you, but I can't go if you road is clear." won't wait for me "Fine, Dunphy, fine!" exulted the The soft-drink man, moved with colonel. He hastily consulted a map that pity, left his rough-boarded em- dangled at his side. "By George, if only we porium. canget tothat ridge in time, we'll be able to "I'll hold his head," said the soft drink seize it before the infantry can get there!" man. "Finish your pop. What are you McGonigal, rolling his eyes in thirsty doin' with them cavalry? I didn't know agony about him, discovered a hot dog they used horse soldiers any more!" 'Who are you: le raspec and soft drink stand across the road, its "I'm from the press!" panted McGoni- at the civilian proprietor eyeing these dusty warriors gal. "Here, hold him until I get my foot

JUNE. 1940 arrested. He saw a tent with a large his trousers that had climbed his shins white Hag flying, a red square sewn in its and showed disheveled socks, his honest center. face reddened by sweat of march and •"Them's umpires," muttered McGoni- violent bumping. gal. "I'll go ask. them. They'll know." "Who are you?" The yellow-hat- He dragged up his horse's head, and corded man's voice sounded like a steel pulling on the tiller ropes, steered the held down upon an emery wheel. steed into the field toward the tent. "Press," said McGonigal. "Fine!" rejoiced McGonigal as he The face beneath the yellow hat cord drew near the tent. "There's a cavalry- wreathed in a smile. "Press?" he crowed. man there. I see a guy in a yellow hat "Oh, you want to know where my cord." A huge limousine with a brigade is! Lattimer, bring me out that In maneuvers, to replace bullets and star above the license plate map. Good grief, here's a reporter. shells, umpires are employed. These We'll get this in the morning editions." umpires go with the troops, and when He clapped his hands, happy as a child. forces meet, by counting the number and a large green automobile decorated with Open he swung the great map that the type of weapons each possesses, and the a red shield-and-star on the bumper, chauffeur brought him. "You see this tactics the opposing sides employ, decide an army license plate, and a large blue road? My infantry highballed through which one has defeated the other. The flag. The man he had seen in the yellow here half an hour ago at forty miles an umpires have to work twice as hard as hat cord came cursing from the empty hour. They'll catch the National Guard anyone else, and so have tents provided tent. in their bivouacs. My plan is to envelop here and there to which they may retire "No umpires around, of course, when from the north and drive the Blacks into and rest. you want them," raged yellow hat cord. the wilderness south of Shaw Mountain." As McGonigal appeared, he beheld "Like cops. Probably ran into the woods "Yeh, I know, Jack, that's all swell," when they saw me coming." said McGonigal, waving his hand, "but McGonigal thumped up. where's the cavalry gone to, right now?" "Hey, Jack," he cried, "where's the rest of your gang?" The man in the yellow hat cord winced as though he had been stung. He had a hard-bitten face with chilled steel eyes. He noted McGonigal's civilian attire,

He dashed his hat to the ground in rage

6 The AMERICAN LEGION* Magazine "The cavalry?" The man in the yellow an' he had a blue thing on his hat under hat cord laughed harshly. "I have no his yellow hat cord." idea where they are. They were probably A deathlike silence fell upon the destroyed by my advance guard an hour group. ago." "Anybody with him?" asked Lieuten-

"You lost, too?" t Dunphy with nervous brittleness. asked McGonigal in "I dunno. He had a car with a chauf- sympathetic tones. ur. With a star on it." ' "Lost? Me? Hell, no! If ever a man seemed about to burst

I'm not in the cavalry!" th energy it was Colonel Tiffany. He "Then what are leaped high in air, his face suffused with you wearin' that crimson. yellow hat cord for?" "The Blue general!" lie The hard-faced gurgled. "You've been talking man swallowed what lo the infantry general! The he seemed to start to infantry general was just two say. "That's not a yel- fields away and you didn't low hat cord," he gulped come to tell us. We could finally. "That's gold. have captured a general. Oh, I command the Blue unheard-of thing that never Infantry." McGonigal dragged his horse's head from the grass. "Sorry," said he, "but I gotta be goin'. I can't do anything for the infantry today; I'm assigned to the cavalry." He steered his reluctant steed out to the road again. "Come back! Come back!" roared the man with the yellow hat cord. "You don't know how to spell my name!" Behind the ridges, across the second pasture, was a fringe of woods, and here McGonigal's horse came plunging to a stop. Under the trees, dispersed against air attack, was Colonel Tiffany's cavalry. McGonigal's horse had suddenly scented two hundred of his fellows and had gone there at once by the shortest direction. Colonel Tiffany and officers came in from the field to see what this hurried messenger might betide, and were disappointed to find only McGonigal. He got down hurriedly lest his horse take him elsewhere again. With the spotlights beat- "What the blistered blast do you ing on them he handed up mean, McGonigal, by riding over the the hat cord to the general skyline like that?" chided Colonel Tif- any. "Don't you know we are waiting here to ambush the infantry? You blun- derer, you'll give the whole position pain. "The guy in the hot-dog stand could have happened. A bunch of milishy away!" said the infantry all went through in capture a regular general!" "Well, don't get your bowels in an up- trucks half an hour ago. He knows. He "Well, don't look now," advised Mc- roar over that," replied McGonigal. goes to all the maneuvers." Gonigal, "but here comes an automobile "The infantry has all gone by half an The colonel choked. There could be loaded with generals on both running hour ago." no such thing. The infantry could not boards." "What's that? What do you mean by have gone so fast. Down a bumpy road that crossed the that?" All drew near to hear McGonigal's "There was a cavalryman down by the fields came a huge green limousine, flying explanation. umpire's tent," protested McGonigal, a blue flag and decorated with a red McGonigal walked a few steps with "that said the same thing. He seen 'em. shield and star above the license plate, He had a map as big as a house he apparently guided and guarded by men showed me his disposition on. Huh. As in yellow hat-cords. if it didn't show on his own map!" "It's a general's limousine!" husked "A cavalryman by the umpire's tent? Colonel Tiffany. But I've had no reports of infantry pass- The limousine halted. The men on the ing. This thing must be checked up. We running board got down. "We've cap- have lack of communication here. What tured the general!" they sang in chorus. did this man look like?" Colonel Tiffany The door of the limousine burst open queried. and the hard-faced man that McGonigal "Well, he was kind of old an' tough, had seen by the (Continued on page 46)

JUNE. 1940 A British military radio unit, sending and receiving orders and other information. At right, one of the numerous receiving sta- tions. They catch everything MARS GRABS

TWENTY-FOUR hours a day, from a hundred stations, on a hundred wave-lengths and in forty-three languages, Germany, France and Britain pour forth radio propaganda. Some of it breeds hate; some of it is warm and friendly. By turns it is smashingly brutal and winningly subtle. Sometimes it is stirring,sometimes humorous. But always it is an engrossing show. This new kind of warfare has three objectives. To weaken the enemy by destroying civilian morale behind his battle lines; to build morale at home; and to win the sympathy of neutrals. You Americans at home hear only the short-wave propaganda aimed at you. Pretty mild stuff. The nazis remind you that it is to America's best interests to leave Britain and France to their fate. The British, believing they already have American sympathy, are inclined to keep their news bulletins studiedly dispas- sionate. You can have no idea of the kind of Ronald H. Cross, Minister for Economic Fritsche's insinuations, repeated night stuff we in Europe hear. "That nations Warfare, is "Minister for Starvation," after night, strike at the hearts of those may speak together in peace," was the one of the few nazi admissions that the who have sons and relatives in the navy. motto of the British Broadcasting Cor- British blockade hurts. The Prime Minis- He persisted so long with his claim that poration. It is but an ironical memory ter, of course, is always "Warmonger the nazis had sunk the Ark Royal that now. Chamberlain." the Admiralty finally sent her on a per-

From 50 stations the nazis keep up an Much emphasis is put on British naval sonal-appearance tour. unending assault on the British. The Ger- losses. Hans Fritsche of Berlin, sinister- Fritsche apparently picks the names man news bulletins sent to England are voiced, smooth-talking, plays this string of vessels from old registries, so that he never read straight, as when sent across interminably. "British people, ask your sinks ships that have been retired from the Atlantic. Hate and ridicule color government 'Where is the Ark Royal?' service. For a fortnight he persisted in every phrase. Winston Churchill is al- Ask Churchill, your First Lord of the announcing that a nazi submarine had ways "First Lord of the Sea Bottom." Sea Bottom, what he has done with the torpedoed H. M. S. Vernon —the navy's Anthony Eden is the man "known for Hood and Renown. You are School of Mines—which stands on dry ." his good tailor and poor speeches." being fed on lies. . . land at Portsmouth.

8 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Sometimes it is hard to understand switch to British imperialism. The Berlin old aristocrat as listen to all the other what the nazis hope to accomplish. Much radio station is filled with persons of all foreign broadcasts combined. A London of their broadcasting in English can only nations and color, there to broadcast musical show is named after him; a irritate listeners. For example, when the the "news" in all languages to every part burlesque biography was published and a British boarded the nazi ship Altmark, of the earth. One way the nazis get them music-hall song was written around him. the nazis ignored the fact that they had is illustrated by the experience of M. He had the honor to be mentioned in violated Norwegian neutrality, a legiti- Fakousa, an Egyptian who was caught public by H. M. the King! mate criticism, and instead poured vitu- in Germany when the war began. Fakousa It is only occasionally now that he peration upon the "inhuman beasts," was told that he could broadcast propa- lapses into his farcical accent. Instead, "blood-thirsty pirates" and "blood-crazed ganda in Arabic or spend the rest of the in a provincial inflection he pours maniacs" who man the British navy. war in a prison camp. The Egyptian straight poison into Britain. prefers broadcasting. "Eminent Hindus," "This is Garmany calling, Garmany THE commentators come on in the conveniently visiting Berlin, describe calling . . . Listen, you Bratish people. evening, when Englishmen are twirl- Britain's bloody colonial methods. The The Bratish army is fighting the battle ing their dials in search of lively enter- Hindus have curious Prussian accents. of Israel. The Jewish financiers and the tainment which the unimaginative B.B. An "American doctor," always unnamed, armament kings of Bratain are using C. programs lack. American swing band who "has just arrived from Poland," you Bratish workers as cannon fodder in recordings attract listeners. Then the describes that land of milk and honey. this capitalistic war." German commentator cuts in. "Our sub- George Bernard Shaw and H. G. W ells Haw Haw picks out the minor incon- ject tonight is Germany's enemy and are quoted to prove the perfidy of veniences of the war and plays them up. England's misfortune—Winston Chur- Britain. The rationing of meat ("It is typical chill! How did Mr. Churchill get into The outstanding personality of the of your money-grabbing Bratish govern- the Cabinet, and why? For years, radio war is Lord Haw Haw, who broad- ment that your meat ration is based on British Prime Ministers have found casts half a dozen times nightly over the price—one shilling and tenpence worth a something repulsive about the fellow Zeesen transmitters. As many Britishers week—instead of weight, as it is in Ger- personally. But when Britain went to listen to this impersonator of a doughty many"), and evacuation ("What right has the government got to separate you from your husband? How do you know

what your husband is doing now, since his wife and children are safely out of town?") are typical comments. "Don't ifUA/fiWAVES worry, Bratish workers," he says. "The Fuehrer realizes that the Bratish upper classes brought on this war and are using you as cannon fodder." The average British workman gets a big kick out of this; he was ready to smash Hitler long before Chamberlain was through appeas- ing him.

HAW Haw is William Joyce, an Eng- lishman who broke away from Os- wald Mosley to start a nazi-fascist party of his own. When there was some trouble about funds, he went to Germany in the company of a woman. In the Propaganda Ministry she is known as Margaret Joyce. She writes and corrects English scripts for the airwaves.

Haw Haw is the highest paid man among the "foreign" broadcasters. He receives between $50 and $60 a week. Lord Haw Haw is sometimes followed by Lady Haw (Continued on page jj)

A mobile Belgian station in action. At right, Haus des Rundfunks in Berlin, broadcasting headquarters

war against the German people, then scruples had to be overcome—because he is a close friend of the American Jew,

Barney Baruch ! In order that this Jewish international financier might establish complete control over the policy of the British Cabinet, it was necessary that a new position should be held by some gentleman more Jewish than the Jew himself!" Sometimes the nazi commentators

c/^Allan A.Michie GRIO, NEW YORK JUNE, 1940 9 material There is magnificent among the young and we should offer them all the help we can

A FTERFT] one of the hardest winters known in my part of the coun- snow- A Famous Historian Answers try, the spring flowers— A drops, crocuses and others—are pushing their way the Inevitable Question Posed nevertheless as I write through half frozen ground and blossom- another ing. In a few weeks there will be by Every Youngster Today annual crop, that of the sons and daugh- from ters of Legionnaires graduating high school, junior college or perhaps JamesTruslow Adams flowers, they are ^ universities. Like the The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine — :

emerging after one of the hardest time either. I have the utmost sympathy times the nation has known, ten for the energetic and ambitious young years of depression, and are push- who want to get started and feel thwarted, | ing into a world still cold and for- but a thought may also be given to the bidding. In innumerable auditori- older generation which is doing its own ums they will receive diplomas and worrying, taking in Mary and her baby hear words of advice. The "young when her husband has no job, and bearing generation" on the threshold of life. I their share of taxation for the billions have no wish to compete, if I could, with JOHN CASSEL spent for the relief of strangers, as well the addresses they will listen to. I wish as helping out relations other than those rather to think aloud or write about cer- No one sex nor any one "gen- of their immediate household. tain things which interest me. eration" is at any moment solely If the young are bewildered and frus- We talk glibly of generations, the responsible for the total condi- trated so are their elders, and it is unfair "young generation," the "lost genera- tions of the world which we all and unkind to think that they as indi- tion," the "old generation," but what do have to make the best of and try viduals made the mess the world is in. 1 we mean? Statistically a generation is con- to make better. Nor does all come back to the point that we all have sidered to cover about 33 years, but two wisdom or knowledge belong to to work together with mutual tolerance, things are obvious to anyone who is not any one group. There is, for ex- understanding and sympathy. A home is misled bv words. One is that there is not ample, an unhappy legend that not successful unless husband and wife wars are made by the old genera- both make their contribution, and it's a

tion and that the young alone failure if parents and children are at

suffer from them. It is odds. Society is the home writ large. my understanding that Now, as to what is facing the young at present it is the young, as they receive their diplomas and emerge and not the old, genera- from the school and college years during tion in Germany which which to a great extent they have been is enthusiastic for war supported by others—parents, taxpayers, and conquest. the givers of endowments, scholarships In the last war and so on. Most will want to earn their many of our young own living, or in the case of some girls people suffered marry a man who is making a living and but so also did do her share in making a home. Jobs are many of the old. scarce and the outlook is discouraging, They lost in some but let me say emphatically that I wish cases the children we would stop talking about the "lost who were their onlv generation." There is a lost generation

but it is not the living young. It is (for Europe rather than the United States) Many youngsters the millions of (Continued on page 57) would rather loaf •than take up un- pleasant work mm joy and hope for old age; they lost prop- erty; the little incomes on which they a complete new set of human beings every hoped to eke out a meager living ceased 33 years; and the other is that every day to support them owing to the permanent babies are dying aged a few hours and rise in cost of living; and they were old old people aged 100 years or so. Our popu- and tired and had no lation is made up at any moment of per- longer the virility and sons of all ages, as of both sexes, living energy of youth to together simultaneously. There is no help them in their 1 J& ^ ( -J segregation of sex or age in our total sorrow and crises. I society although it is true that persons of could give any num- different sexes and ages may have their ber of examples but different outlooks, problems and in- will simply state the ' i 'mm > i —- terests. truth that it is not m ' ml The main point is that they all have youth alone which suf- their various duties, responsibilities, re- fers from war, or even actions on one another, and their special panics and depres- contributions to make to the stock of gen- sions. eral welfare, happiness and comfort. So- If in past years I ciety is an elaborate network of rights, young Tom or Mary duties and influences. Persons of different just out of high school ages complement and supplement each or college has not other as do those of different sexes. To set been able to find a up a mythical young generation against job — sometimes not an equally mythical old one is about as any job but one they sensible, and dangerous, as to foment think will suit them mistrust or hostility between men and and feel they are born into a hard world, women because of their difference. We all perhaps Dad and Mother, worrying Inevitably, a great many just have to live together and we all have about both themselves and the children, out of college will have a something to give to the common stock. may not have been having a very good tough time of it

JUNE, 1940 II A MERICA made headlines seventy- from experience on the battlefield. One /\ five years ago! side wore uniforms of blue and the other Two yeais ago the remnants of the / % For three-quarters of a cen- of gray, but at heart they were brothers- armies of the North and the South were tury ago the Civil War was in-arms and honored those in the pro- guests of the American Government at a drawing to a close with the formal sur- fession even though shortly before they reunion held at Gettysburg on the render of Confederate forces throughout had been enemies. General Grant put seventy-fifth anniversary of that great the South in April and May of 1865. this feeling in words when upon hearing battle. It was the last time in all eternity The one event that sent an electric a cheer starting in the Union lines as soon that the two armies will ever meet again current of rejoicing through the country, as news of General on the field—a few similar (but in greater degree) to that Tee's surrender be- years more and the which went over the world on November came known, he or- sound of Taps will

11, 1918, was the surrender of General dered it stopped, |J te| be heard by those vet- Robert E. Lee to Lieutenant General saying: "The war is erans no more upon U. S. Grant at Appomattox. The nation's over; the rebels are this earth. joy was not so much for victory, but our countrymen As we pay our re- rather relief that the bloody four-year again." spects, then, to those conflict had at last come to an end. Union knapsacks veterans on Memorial

The historian going through the records were opened and food Day this year it is not of (hose days is amazed at the story shared with the com- out of order to refresh behind the headlines that Hashed on the rades of the South, our minds with the front pages of the newspapers that spring. and the soldiers who calendar of events that For the spirit that prevailed in those the day before had took place seventy- conferences where negotiations went for- been fighting furi- five years ago. No ward for the capitulation of the gray-clad ously began a brisk matter what followed armies was one of fraternity and concili- trade in peaceable when politicians took ation instead of enmity and revenge. swapping before the over after the soldiers It is significant to note that the terms two armies were had gone home, the of that peace were formulated not by withdrawn to be dis- The two chiefs of the fighting record of those sol- politicians but by soldiers who knew war banded. forces, South a nd North diers during April and

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine May of 1865 is one of which Americans ship. By this capitulation 37,047 Con- the States did not come to an end until can be proud. federates were disbanded to return to the latter part of May, but in the popular March 4: Abraham Lincoln was in- civilian life. mind the meeting of Lee and Grant at augurated in his second term in the May 4: General "Dick" Taylor sur- Appomattox marked its close. In rank White House. His address upon that both men were commanders-in-chief of occasion has become a classic in American their respective armies, and when Lee lllustrations by literature. offered his sword and the cause of the E. PYLES . 1 pril g: General Lee surren- South to Grant he symbolized the dered to General Grant at acknowledgement of final defeat by the Appomattox, and 26,765 men Confederacy. remaining in the Army of The story of that meeting has been told Northern after four time and again. Two great soldiers who years of war laid down their had fought together in the Mexican War, arms. Lee's farewell to his army who had slowly worked their way up forms one of the most touching through the junior grades of the old incidents in our history. Army, and who eventually commanded April 14: The Stars and the armies of the two contending forces Stripes were raised once more in the Civil War, met and made plans for over Fort Sumter, where the a peace that would be just and lasting for first shot of the war had been America. fired four years before. Which was the greater soldier? There is That evening Abraham Lin- hardly any basis for comparison. coln with Mrs. Lincoln and two Grant was a resolute fighter who never friends attended a theater per- knew when he was licked. Once in the formance. John Wilkes Booth, Battle of the Wilderness when he had an actor suffering from mixed ordered an assault along the whole line hallucinations of persecution and lost seven thousand men in a little and grandeur, stole into the box less than a half hour he faltered. Throw- and shot him in the back of the ing himself down on the cot in his tent head. Mr. Lincoln was the first American he shook and cried like a baby, but when President to be assassinated. Food was shared by men who had the fit had passed he rose and issued in morning Presi- orders to April iy. At 7:22 the been fighting each other furiously continue the battle. That sum- died, and his death was a mer of dent Lincoln the day before 1864 he had adopted the policy of blow to both North and South. Historians a war of attrition, relying on the great are still speculating as to what the history resources of the North, and he was the of the country in the next few years rendered his troops in the Department of only man at the time capable of conduct- would have been if he had not been Alabama and Mississippi. ing such a war. Yet he wasn't vindictive, assassinated. May 26: Kirby Smith surrendered to as was proved at Yicksburg as well as April 26: General Joseph E. Johnston Federal authority his Department west at Appomattox. surrendered to General William Tecum- of the Mississippi River. Lee met those attacks of the last year seh Sherman near Raleigh, North Caro- In all, the total number of Confeder- of the conflict with an army whose de- lina, and the two armies that had fought ates laying down their arms in those two pleted ranks could not be filled. Limited across Georgia and and in months was 174,223. resources of the South and the confusion North Carolina clasped hands in friend- Officially, therefore, the War Between resulting from a (Continued on page 32)

JUNE, 1940 13 Bucky held him in his arms and crooned to him while the doc fixed him up

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LE ROY GENERAL BARTLETT

I hear some of these crosses you will have a good idea, even if for the fireworks to start. But not the

WHENveteransmakingdirty weren't in it. aide tried to cracks you Old Man. His get him to go

about generals, it always Anyhow, as I was saying, that night the to sleep but he couldn't. He was sending makes me laugh. They ooth Division moved up to relieve the some of his boys to their death. They think that the front line trenches were Fifth and the Both had relieved the 3 2d. were his boys and he was responsible for pretty tough. Maybe so, but the back of Moved up is right! Bucky put his com- them. Perhaps his battle plans were the front was a madhouse. mand post so close to the front line that wrong. Their death would be his fault. General "Bucky" O'Neil commanded we didn't use hardly any wire at all. We That's what he was thinking. Put your- the brigade that won the battle of got all settled soon after dark in the cellar self in his place. How would you have Bantheville. Sure he was in a dugout of what was left of a farmhouse just north felt? during the whole fight. So was 1. 1 was his of Romagne. The plans were all made and Ahead of us was Bantheville. The telephone operator. This time that I am there wasn't anything for me to do but Yanks never had any tougher fight than talking about the Fifth Division had just keep checking the wires. The place was that. Pershing himself said so and he taken Cunel and the outfit on their loft — so full of officers, messengers and I don't ought to know. I think that Bucky

I think it was the 2d anyways they were know what else, but nobody offered to go would have called the whole thing off, if 3 ; called the "Iron Jaws"— had just gotten outside that I heard. Fritz knew that he could have. No, he did not lack nerve. to Romagne. Both these outfits were something was up and kept throwing a Not Bucky. His plans were good his men

pretty well shot up, and no wonder, for it lot of stuff our way just on general were better. It was just waiting that was was the real Hindenburg Line. If you principles. getting under his skin. About 3 A. m. a have ever seen a picture of the American Like I say, everything was all set, and runner fell in the door and right into

Cemetery at Romagne with all those we all took it as easy as we could waiting Bucky's arms. He had been nicked by a

14 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine hunk of shell. Bucky held him in his arms "Get me ammunition. Beg

like a while the it buy it ; borrow it ; steal it ; and crooned to him baby ; but doc fixed him up. I had a little cognac in get it. Send it up; don't make my canteen that I'd been saving and I them send back for it. Get the

offered it to Bucky. He put his arm rolling kitchens busy. I want around my shoulder while he took a man- hot coffee and slum for every sized swig. You see he and I were bud- man on the front line immedi- dies. Just like that. I did not give him any ately after dark. Send up two advice on how to win the war, though. machine-gun companies for sup- port—one on each flank. You medicos take care of the wound- ed. Those men up front are go-

ing to have service or I'll take everyone of you to pieces by hand. Move." RAYMOND SISLEY The place boiled like an anthill as his orders were relayed. My relief came in and I stepped outside. It was kind of what he had waited all night for. His men peaceful out there. I thought about Bucky were up there and they needed him. They and his boys and then I remembered the had not failed him. He could not fail message that had come for him just after them. He began to slap out orders like a dark last night. You see his only son had machine gun. been killed at Cunel the day before. "Listen, Weller, you Red Legs look Yeah, it's nice to be a general—in

out for yourselves. Get ammunition. Get peacetime. In wartime, well . . . food. Keep your guns going but keep I knew better than that. He was plenty them off my men. Don't bother me. I'm tough but he was a soldier, believe you busy. Good-bye." me, and he knew his business. Bucky slammed up the phone At Zero Hour he grabbed the phone and turned quickly on his staff. and hollered to me to put him through to Colonel Weller, who commanded the 'Get me ammunition. artillery and was in the forward observa- Get the rolling kitchens tion post. Luckily for me the line was still busy. Those men up in order. When the barrage went off front are going to have Bucky used the colonel as a pair of eyes. service! They forgot all about rank and all of us forgot everything else but what was com- ing in over the phone. "Jimmy, can you see anything?" "Not yet, Bucky. Wait a minute. Here comes the first wave. There is a ground fog just ahead of them. Now they are entering it. I can only see their bayonets. Now I cannot see them at all. Heinie can- not see them either. Here comes the second wave. They are moving just as if they were on the drill field. Bucky, you can't beat the Ameri- can soldier. He's tops. General Winn's brigade on our left is giving us a lot of help. He must have every gun going. "Here comes the first wave out of the fog. They are advancing by rushes. They have reached the first objective. They are down. They have opened fire. Here comes the second wave. They are stopping with the first wave. They did not leap- frog them. We are licked, Bucky, we are licked. No, no, wait a minute. The lieu- tenants are up; the sergeants are up; they are running back and forth behind the line; some of the men are up; they are all up, Bucky, they are all up; they are mov- ing forward; they are at a trot; they are at a run. They are charging, Bucky, they are charging. They are in Bantheville. We've got it, Bucky, we've got it." Bucky went into action then. This was

JUNE, 1940 15 yellow traffic light winked lot of 'em." Nora was rather enjoying the "Sure, I'd never be refusin' a ride." THEonce. Elizabeth Archer stepped situation after finding she was not hurt. Elizabeth climbed quickly into her car on the gas. "I can just make it," She gathered up a corner of her faded and held the door open for Nora, who

she thought. skirt and dropped the onions into it. Her held tightly to her skirtful of onions as In that same instant Nora O'Brien plump legs, showing beneath the raised she clambered into the car. Nora's little stepped from the curb. A paper sack of skirt, were clothed in black cotton stock- straw hat, dusty and queerly shaped onions which she carried in her arms ings and she wore shoes of the variety from its contact with the pavement and broke open and went tumbling into the known as "Congress gaiters." The elastic the car's wheels, perched at a rakish street. She stooped to retrieve the onions, on both sides was badly stretched and angle upon her tight knob of gray-streaked unmindful of the oncoming car. allowed the shoes to stick out grotesquely red hair. Elizabeth's brakes screeched to a stop in front and back. A cellophane-wrapped package of as she swerved her big car sharply to the Elizabeth was irritated and embar- flowers lay on the seat and Elizabeth curb. The right front fender grazed the rassed but still loath to drive away and moved them to make room for Nora. stooping figure and it fell to the pave- leave the woman she had knocked down. "What fine posies ye have there. I ment, the nondescript hat rolling away She stooped and with nervous, gloved never saw the like of 'em. What are they amongst the onions. Elizabeth, her lips fingers picked up an onion which had called?" Nora asked in delight. tight with annoyance, stepped quickly rolled close to her car wheels. "They are orchids," Elizabeth an- from the car. "I am sorry I knocked you dewn. May swered shortly.

Xora scrambled to her feet and brushed I take you to a doctor to see if you are '"Tis a grand bouquet and 'tis grand the pavement dust from her faded skirts. injured in any way?" ye will look a wearin' 'em." Nora's round Sure, ma'am, 'twas all me own fault "Lord love ye, ma'am, ye couldn't hurt and wrinkled face beamed with honest and 'tis a silly ould woman I am to risk an ould Irish biddy by rollin' her a bit on admiration for the frail, exquisite blos- me life for a bit of an onion." the pavement. Sure, I'm fat and sassy as soms as well as for the trim, well-groomed "Here, let me get your hat. Never iver." Nora laughed heartily and the woman beside her. mind the onions." Elizabeth's cheeks crowd on the sidewalk joined in her merri- Elizabeth set her lips in a hard line as burned with embarrassment; she wanted ment, much to Elizabeth's discomfiture. she started the big car. nothing so much as to escape the quickly "Very well. May I at least take you to "I am not going to wear them. I take gathering crowd. where you were going?" Elizabeth de- a spray to my son's grave on each anni- "Indeed, I'll not be wastin' good onions cided the only way to escape the hu- versary—today is his birthday." after near losin' me life to keep 'em. Sure, miliating situation was to get Nora '"Tis a blunderin' ould fool I am and there's many a bowl of good soup in the into the car. I'm askin' yer pardon. I'm a bereaved

16 Tht AMF.RICAN LEGION Magazine mother too, and I know the heartache ye and all; then our girl, Mary, God rest have to bear." her soul, died abearing as fine a pair o' "Will you please tell me where you twins as ever ye laid eyes on. 'Twas six J.W. SCH LAI KJ ER wish to go?" Elizabeth asked, a little year ago, come Easter time; her man, is irritated at Nora's solicitude. aworkin' on W.P.A. but seems like the "I was on me way home, ma'am, and money won't reach no more, without me the spring cleaning. No doubt I could that's at 084 East First Street. Tis workin'." Nora hunched forward a little give you a few days' work. Will you have quite a piece from here and if ye'll just as though even then she could feel the any free time next week?" be droppin' me off beside the street-car tremendous weight which she had to carry. "That I will, ma'am, and I could give line, I'll not trouble ye no more." "What does your husband do?" ye a couple of days and I thank ye." "1 may as well take you home. I am in asked Elizabeth, mildly interested in Elizabeth crossed the railroad tracks, no hurry." Elizabeth's gloved hands Nora's story of her overwhelming mis- passed a noisy machine shop and turning closed easily around the steering wheel fortunes. her car down an unpaved street, she as she guided the big car through the "Me poor man ain't worked for near entered a residence district where the down-town traffic. ten year. He's that crippled with arthri- old, weather beaten houses showed evi- Nora sighed contentedly as she leaned tis, 'tis a pity. Lucky for us, I'm well and dence of a former prosperity. At Nora's back against the soft upholstery. She strong. I can turn out as big a day's direction she drew up before an un- could not long remain silent, however. work as the next one for all I'll be sixty- painted frame house. A curtain flopped "Ye said ye had lost a boy, didn't ye?" five, come next June." listlessly at an open window. Strong she began. Elizabeth nodded a curt "I usually hire some extra help during odors of boiling (Continued on page j6) affirmative. "Me own boy was killed in the great war," Nora volunteered. "I wish 'twas so I could put a bit of flower on his restin' place. 'Twas blown to bits he was, with the big guns, and the Government said in their letter they couldn't be sendin' his poor body home. They laid him beside his buddies over theie and I got to see the place." Nora's blue eyes grew misty as in fancy she saw once more the beautiful spot. '"Tis a lovely green hillside in France.

Like velvet it is, so smooth and tine. Rows and rows of white crosses—so quiet like and all. I think he's restin' good there." Nora sighed, and a tear rolled unnoticed down her weathered cheek. "How did you manage to make a trip to France?" Although she was habitually indifferent to the problems of the people with whom she came in contact, Eliza- beth was slightly curious to know how one so obviously in poverty could finance a trip abroad. "Sure, the Government paid me way and 'tis a grand country we are livin' in, ain't it, ma'am? The ladies in The American Legion Auxiliary told me about it and they wrote all the letters and filled out all the blanks and such that I had to send in to the Government before I went. 'Tis grand folks in the Auxiliary, ma'am," Nora beamed with pride, thinking of her membership in the organization. "Don't ye belong to it? But maybe your son was not in the war at all, at all." "Yes, my son was in the war, but I do not belong to any of those organiza- tions—I hate them." Elizabeth jerked the steering wheel viciously.

"Oh, ma'am, 'tis only that ye don't understand 'em. Ye could never hate anything which does a body so much good if ye knew more about 'em. Sure, 'twas hard for me to pay me dues, but the ladies let me make the coffee for their lunches and that pays me dues, they say. 'Tis many a day's work they give me, too. I go out by the day, ye know." Nora sighed. "Sure, me man and me was doin' good, what with the pen- "There now, tell ould Nora all about it. sion the Government sent for the boy 'Twill ease the poor heart of ye"

JUNE, 1940 17 SHE STANDS

LEGIONNAIRES who have been in The Hub before well YOUknow the magic spell conjured by the city of crooked, cobble- stoned streets, of ancient buildings and magnificent parks, where within ten minutes of Convention Headquarters one can see more famed historic spots than anywhere else in North America. It's that way in Boston. This is fabulous ground, the place where America was born, and the shade of The Horseman of Boston will ride again in September, his steed and himself unseen by the thousands but their presence very real to every Legionnaire in town. And you who are making your first visit will feel the same spell, right enough, and there will be friendly people to show you the better-known

sights and places. You'll see Faneuil Hall, of course, if you care to, and the old State House, the Old North and South Churches, the site of the Boston Tea Party and the several burying grounds where lie many illustrious dead. You may want to see Bunker Hill, and both Concord and Lexington battlegrounds. These may be said to be the regulars, the standard historic places most visited, and they are well worth seeing. To anyone—man, woman and child—who has seen them, American history can never again be a thing of stuffy books, of dates and facts to be remembered. Those old pages you suffered over will suddenly leap to life, I assure you, and out of them will march and ride a notable company in Continental buff and blue, in home- spun, in scarlet coats, to make history before your eyes. It's in the very air, in Boston. These fabled American shrines, however, are not one-tenth part of the things Boston and Massachusetts have to offer the visitor. See them, by all means, and then consider the amazing panorama of other sights, both historic and contemporary, in this city and State and in nearby

Bunker Hill monument at Charlestown, which also has the Navy Yard, at which you may see the famous U. S. S. Constitution—Old Ironsides. At right, the airport, in East Boston <9 STEWART H. HOLBROOK

18 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine communities. Among them is certainly something to quicken the interest of every last one of a hundred thousand Legion- naires and their families. Much as I love parades, and the good fellowship that goes with a Legion con- vention, I am happy to know, as I do, that more than one veteran is coming to Boston not only for the convention but also to learn something, possibly new, about his own business. This is the place. American industry was born in Massachusetts and century-old makers of quality products are still at it. In downtown Boston, for one thing, is the Shoe Museum, a stupendous collection of shoes of all periods, ranging back 2000 years, and working models of the most modern machinery. At Worcester is the original plant of Washburn and Moen, pioneers in the steel wire industry, and the Higgins Armory, with its master- pieces of sheet steel craftsmanship. In

Worcester, too, is the Textile Machinery Museum, visited daily by industrialists from almost everywhere.

At Lynn is the original office of Elihu i'Wwjo rot wot m». Thompson, who will need no introduc- tion to electricians. Dalton has the Crane Museum devoted to the history and modern aspects of fine paper making. At l'awtucket, Rhode Island, is the Slater Mill (1793) the first successful cotton manufacturing plant in America. And then, there's research. In and near Boston are some of the country's most celebrated industrial research concerns whose recent accomplishments read like the wildest fiction. Or, if it's insurance, there is the Insurance Capital of Hartford, a drive The monument at Concord bridge, of about 125 miles, and in The Hub itself with Emerson's verse, known to every American schoolboy

are the home offices of many old line firms. Throughout the State are manufac- turing concerns whose very names have been household words for generations, some of them since the 18th century. They are venerable in years but you will

rind them young in ideas, and if you make your lining in industry, The custom house then you are in the right place to tower, the highest learn something, both about its in Boston background and its most modern application. A number of Legionnaires in the Middle West have told me they are bringing their families to the convention this year not only to see where America was born but also to view the ocean for the first time. They couldn't see the ocean any better than from Massachusetts, which, as many do not know, has well over one thousand miles of coast. There's the aristocratic but most ap- proachable North Shore, running from Boston to the New Hamp- The Legion drum shire line, with sandy coves and corps will do their rugged headlands, with the finest stuff in the famous of bathing, fishing and sailing. Harvard Stadium History {Continued on page J4)

JUNE, 1940 19 Think of the influence the padded- chest boys have had over our greatest pitchers and the number of young, wild hurlers they've developed into successful

Cochrane in 1937. It's then the loyal moundsman. Bill Killifer was the perfect rooter, the press reporter and the man- mate for the great Grover Cleveland ager really miss the work-horse of the team. Having a hard-hitting, fighting

out, three on . . . They out of the lineup is just as big a

TWOthrow in a pinch hitter. Every headache to a ball club as it is for a large eye is on the pitcher. If he fans family to have "mom" sick in bed and the dangerous batter he's a hero. no one to get dinner. But what about the poor guy behind the To be rated as a first class mattress plate wearing the mattress, cage and the man on a major league ball club takes composition shin boards? Do we fans more than the ability to catch pitched ever consider the catcher? Sure, when he balls and guard the home platter. What- saves a wild pitch, blocks a hurricane ever possesses a man to want to become slide home or cuts down a stealer at a catcher is beyond reckoning: perhaps second. The rest of the time he's just it's the same urge that drives one to the man in there catching every ball be shot out of a circus cannon or walk pitched and heaven help him if a bad into a cage full of lions armed with only hop gets by him. a chair and pistol. If he's a right handy-man with the Like the old army sergeants, experi- stick he sometimes will get a plug in a enced are the backbone of suc- daily story. More is expected of him cessful ball clubs. Take the number of Alexander. Chief Meyers steadied the than of any man on the diamond. He's catchers who have made excellent mana- Big Six, Mathewson. Schreckengost, who really never given much attention until gers and you have some idea how valu- handled the wacky Rube Waddell like a he's banged up or has an unfortunate able they have been to the national mother. Even , a former accident like the one that befell Mickev pastime. catcher himself, had to smile at Schreck's

20 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine at last going to be a backstop for a world series club. Among Connie's other finds at the time was a scowling, black haired young gent from Boston University who thought stoppers one must he was an infielder. Cagey Connie after doff his skimmer a couple of squints at Gordon Stanley to Cy Perkins. Cochrane told him that he was to be- ability to soothe the For years Cy come a catcher and shipped him out to frolicsome Rube. The worked for Connie Portland in the to deeds of catchers Mack, catching learn his trade. Grumbling, Mickey went only after he was promised that he would could fill volumes. We many w i 1 d and can't name them all, woolly hurlers. Per- be given a chance to take over Perkins's but among the top- kins and Cochrane job the next season. The following season notchers one must in- should always be Mickey discovered that he and Perkins clude Ossie Schreck, mentioned in the came from the same section of Massa- Doc Powers, Wally same breath. For chusetts. They became fast friends and Schang, Cy Perkins, their paths have Old Ralphy whiskered a lot of catching and been entwined ever tricks into Mickey's fan-like ears. What Charley "Red" Dooin. since they met up while with the Ath- with youth on his side and Ralph a little Add Gabby Street, George Gibson, letics. Bob Grace, Oscar Stanage, Peck Lerian Old Ralphy was the first string catcher and Jimmy Wilson. In our second for the Athletics when Connie would breath we've , Bob have been happy for them to finish in O'Farrell, and Gabby Hart- seventh place. In those years Mack had nett. Who could forget Billy Sullivan, all sorts of pitchers. Perkins was as good who handled Big Ed Walsh. Bill Carri- as insurance. Ralphy would wear himself gan, who nursed Ruth and Pennock with out diving for wild pitches in order to the Red Sox. That grand old backer- keep the young hurlers from skulling upper of the Braves, Hank Gowdy. Yes, the customers. and there was Bill Bergen, who did right Connie certainly needed Perkins, for by Brooklyn for years. , who in those days few customers showed to helped the Phillies to their only pennant watch the A's. Then Connie heard of and then four years later went to Cin- Lefty Grove, who was pitching for Balti- cinnati and guided the Rhineland boys more, and bought him. He purchased to their first flag. Simmons from Milwaukee. Old Home Not to forget Wilbert Robinson, Run Baker tipped him off to a 17-year- rotund old "Robbie," ruler of the daffy old catcher named Foxx who was playing tired from his battles with the wild hurl- Dodgers; Muddy Ruel, Jimmy Archer, in the Eastern Shore league. Then Moose ers it was not long before Cochrane took —well, let's stop naming Earnshaw and Rube Walberg turned up. over Ralphy's job. 'em for a bit and go into some of their Perkins then thought that after all his Mr. Mack, who knows something deeds. Of all the hard working curve slaving with dime-a-dozen pitchers he was about the art of {Continued on page 38)

JUNE, 1940 21 ' Masters DEATH walked silently with sport, Steve," so they danced to the them burst into screams of hysterical young Steve Jones that Satur- platter tunes. laughter. day afternoon as he left his Presently the woman with the pinkish And so Steve Jones entered the first home. hair and rouged lips gave Biff four cig- phase of marihuana poisoning.

He didn't know it, of course; he was, arettes and took a dollar for them. He was emotionally exhilarated; hith- in fact, as happy as a healthy, sunny- Rapidly Biff lit one for Millie, then for erto always shy with Millie, now he haired boy of eighteen should be. He had Alice, and finally for Steve. said, "We'll always love each other. his new driver's-license and his father's "Treat yourself to a thrill, big boy," Millie." And she nodded languorously permission to use the family car. Waiting Biff grinned, thrusting it between Steve's as if that were the way it had always been for him was Millie, the girl he wanted lips. "In ten minutes you'll be hotter planned. Steve danced better than he most to snuggle beside him as they rolled than a sheriff's pistol." ever had before, seeming to float through along the broad beckoning highways of Steve rarely smoked; when you're the the air. The math exam which had Minnesota. On a day filled with such star forward on the basketball team you been worrying him seemed a lead- joyous possibilities death seemed, indeed, have to watch your wind. Moreover, pipe cinch. Mentally excited, he did the remote. this didn't taste like tobacco. It had an problems aloud and shrieked with laugh- At Millie's he found another girl, Alice acrid, unpleasant odor. But Millie, al- ter at their ease. The others burst into Smith, and a trim, dudish youth who ready a strange glitter in her eyes, said, gales of laughter at the merest pun. Time answered to the name of Biff. Biff was "Don't be dated, darling," so he inhaled ceased to exist; there was no past, no tall and thin, with a pale, nervous face, several times. future, only the present. nervous eyes and a nervous volubility "What is it?" he asked, as a queer, And then Biff's face floated into that passed for brightness. Biff had been giddy happiness began to sweep over him. Steve's distorted vision and he heard him expelled from high school and thought he knew all the answers. It was Biff who made the fatal suggestion.

"This is duller than a dime-store ring," he said, after they had sat around for a time. "I know a place where we can dance and have a swell time." "Pop lent me the car," Steve demurred. "I thought we'd take a ride." "Sure, we will—later," laughed Biff. "The day is but a pup." Biff had that sophisti- cated air of worldliness that impresses young people; so, laughing, they piled into Steve's car and rolled over to Twelfth Street. The house Biff indicated was old and shabby, and when he rapped, a woman with an old, hag- gard face topped by dry, A detail from Lawrence Wenell Post of Minneapolis just pinkish hair looked suspi- before it rooted out a flourishing patch of marihuana ciously at them. "It's me, Blonde Gal," laughed Biff. "Open up and let's get at "Reefers," chuckled Biff. "Some call say. "Bust up the woo-tossing and let's the fun." 'em muggles, or mu, Mary Weavers, or ramble in that heap of yours." After a sharp glance at Millie, Alice moocah— it's all the same. Ain't they And then, suddenly, Steve found him- and Steve, the woman admitted them to the nuts?" self in the car. One of the hallucinations a barren room, furnished with a few Already his voice was distant, faint. of marihuana poisoning is loss of judg- chairs and a bright new victrola that Steve suddenly felt swell, marvelous. ment of time and speed. Another is fixa- played all the swing tunes at a nickel a Far away came Biff's voice, "In a tion of ideas. dance. Biff slid some coins into the slot minute you can take two jumps and grab Millie suddenly said, "We're going and grabbed Alice. Steve felt uncomfort- the moon." eighty." able, uneasy; but Millie whispered, "Be a "Only one," said Steve and all of The speedometer verified this. Steve The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine — Marihuana

of it until stones flew like cannon shells. Then again the car soared upward, came down upside down, and rolled onward across the meadowland like tumbleweed before the wind. Smashed like crumpled

tinfoil, it finally stopped two hundred yards deep in the field. The state cop who looked at what had once been fresh-cheeked youth felt his stomach bounce against his diaphragm. "You wouldn't think human beings coidd be so smashed," he muttered huskily.

Now, the tragedy described above is

not fiction; it wasn't imagined. It hap- pened not long ago in Minnesota; similar tragedies have happened in nearly every State in the Union. And will happen again any day, perhaps right in your community. Because marihuana and marihuana-smoking among the youth of

our nation is wide-spread, a menace worse than a madman with a gun. Every day, in your city and in mine,

marihuana is being smoked, chiefly by youngsters who are ignorant of its dan- gers. Every month there are robberies, assaults, rapes, suicides and murders directly the result of marihuana smoking. Thinking men and women have come to know maiihuana {Continued on page 52)

Right in the midst of the body-and-soul-destroying weed. At right, for once smoking marihuana does no harm. The pile going up in flames was uprooted just a block away from a hospital

said stubbornly, "She'll do ninety The tire rubber wait and see." screeched and smoked. The needle crept up to eighty-six. The car tilted sharply. Steve swore, jerked at the wheel, tramped The turn angled ever his foot to the floor, trying to shake an- farther to the left. Steve other four miles an hour out of the car. wrenched at the wheel. "Slow down, Steve," screamed Millie. The turn was impossible Marihuana makes you emotionally to make. The car slid unstable. Steve glared at her and swore off the road, tilted in the furiously. A moment ago he had for her ditch, and then, sud-

the tenderest impulses; now he felt only denly, as if it had taken a blazing hatred. wings, leaped the ditch "Shut your face," he shouted. and struck a telephone The accelerator remained at the floor. pole. The huge pole broke The telephone poles whisked by like the like a match stick. The pickets of a fence. The concrete road car plunged onward. Mil- poured under the racing wheels like a lie screamed, Biff yelled sucking gray flood. The whining howl and Alice moaned. of the motor drowned all other sound. Then, coming down And then, on a sudden, the road like a helpless plane, the angled sharply to the left. Steve twisted car struck a stone wall, the wheel. "Hang on," he roared. ploughed through a foot

JUNE, 1940 23 Tom Haggerty of New York in Second place winner Clarence action at Faneuil Hall, where he Carlson of Michigan is planning to was acclaimed orator No. 1 Young Haggerty was one of four high become a lawyer school students representing geographical sections of the country, and though he HISTORIC Faneuil Hall in Bos- came through with Hying colors and was the winner of the third award. Hugh L. ton—the cradle of American acclaimed the winner, his victory was by Overbey, Jr., 16, of Jacksonville, Florida, liberty —rang with the vibrant no means a walk-away. He met foemen the youngest of the group and who will voice of American youth on worthy of his steel; young orators who have a chance for top honors again next the night of April 15th in a series of were steeped in knowledge of the Con- year, finished in fourth place. Eleven stirring orations that marked the grand stitution and the Bill of Rights—the hundred persons crowded into Faneuil finals of the third annual American Le- subject assigned for discussion —and so Hall to hear these boys reaffirm their gion National High School Oratorical well did they acquit themselves that, at faith in American democracy and in a Contest. Four young high school students, the conclusion of the meeting, Dr. government of the people, by the people clean-cut, wholesome youngsters of just Albert Bushnell Hart, Harvard profes- and for the people. They were applauded the type we like to think of as symboliz- sor-emeritus of history, gave each of quite as loudly and as warmly as were any ing American youth, representing the them the accolade of merit. "Never," he of the famous orators in American history pick and cream of more than sixty-two said, "in all my long career as a teacher who had in days gone by preached their thousand contestants entered in forty have I seen four young men so sure of doctrines from the same rostrum in the States and Hawaii, met in a memorable speech and so quick of wit." And that, same historic shrine. forensic clash. And out of that battle of coming from the dean of American his- As the new national champion of the eloquence emerged a new national torians, is praise indeed. oratorical contest, Tom Haggerty—the champion—Thomas E. Haggerty, 18, of Clarence Carlson, 17, of Pontiac, son of a World War veteran now a Rosedale, Long Island, New York, who Michigan, who was born at Ljungby, telegrapher in the New York Fire De- was sponsored by the Far Rockaway Sweden, was awarded second place; Joe partment — is assured of a college educa- (New York) Post. Minihan, 17, of Casper, Wyoming, was tion by virtue of a $4,000 first prize pay-

24 The AMERICAN LEGION! Magazine able in a scholarship to any college of his selection. His ambition is to study medi- cine, but he has not as yet decided upon the school he will attend. The prize money awarded to the first place man for 1930 and 1940 was the contribution of Eddie Cantor, stage, screen and radio star. The 1939 national champion was Fletcher Padgett, Jr., 17, of Saluda, While waiting for the decision the warriors fraternize South Carolina, who is now a student at Wofford College, Spartansburg, South with Bill Cunningham (center), Boston writer. Left to Carolina. right the lads are Minihan, Haggerty, Overbey and Carlson Sandy haired Clarence Carlson, repre- senting the mid-West, won $1,000 to Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart, Harvard Pro- is by all counts the best we have con- apply on his college course. He wants to fessor, Chairman ; State Commissioner of ducted," said Homer L. Chaillaux, Direc- study law at the University of Michigan. Education Walter E. Downey; Chief tor of the National Americanism Com- Serious minded, slow speaking Joe Mini- Justice John P. Higgins of the Massa- mission under whose immediate super- han, who is but one generation removed chusetts Superior Court; Rev. Father vision the several contests were held.

from the Emerald Isle, and who repre- Michael J. Ahern, S. J., of Weston Col- "Eieven Departments participated in sented the West, received $500 which he lege, and Joseph R. Wiggin, President of 1938, with approximately four thousand will apply on his law course. Bubbling, the Massachusetts Bar Association. Jere- boys and girls enrolled as contestants. effervescent and an altogether charming miah J. Twomey, of Lawrence, Massa- That year the contest was won by John young chap is Hugh Overbey, who chusetts, a member of the Legion's Na- Janson, of Phoenix High School, Phoenix, fought his way up to represent the tional Americanism Commission and Arizona. In 1939 we had twenty Depart- South. He is ambitious to study electrical Chairman of the Massachusetts Ora- ments participating with more than engineering at the Massachusetts Insti- torical Commission, presided at the twenty-four thousand high school stu- tute of Technology. meeting, and music for the contest was dents engaged. Forty Departments in The judges of the final contest, whose furnished by the Suffolk County Ameri- 1040 and more than sixty-two thousand names were kept secret until after the can Legion Glee Club. contestants is a highly gratifying advance final oration had been delivered, were "The 1940 National Oratorical Contest in a most worthwhile program. The value of the contest is that it reaches out to hundreds of thousands of adults at- Identity of members of the board of judges was not made known until who contests and after the contest. Award was made by, reading left to right, Judge John tend the elimination who hear these youngsters talk on real P. Higgins, Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart, Rev. Michael J. Ahern, Hon. Joseph "Wiggin and Walter E. Downey

JUNE, iq^o -5 American subjects. Other Departments will adopt the program next year and thus give opportunity to many more young- sters to win honors and a full college scholar- ship. As more and more are drawn into the con- test each year, the competition will be- come keener. That, too,

is the American way." In determining the first place man at the Faneuil Hall finals the distinguished board of judges were not in- fluenced by eloquence alone; that quality was one of three points on which the award was made—poise and per- sonality, accuracy and effectiveness, and power to thrill, quicken and compel. Neuman-Wenzel Post, Sturgis, Michigan, begins at the beginning by pre- Young Tom Haggerty's trial by oratory senting a baby incubator to a local hospital for general community use did not in any way differ from that of his

talk than during his twelve-minute pre- pared address, which he had delivered eight times previously in winning school, city, Department, regional and sectional contests to become one of the four contest- ants in the grand finals. It was the plat- form performance of the four finalists taken as a whole that brought the glowing words of commendation from Dr. Hart. Each one of them demonstrated a thorough understanding of the Bill of Rights and had the words at their com- mand to express that knowledge clearly and convincingly. The extemporaneous talks were broadcast over a national hook- up of the Mutual Broadcasting Company. Semi-finalists who fought their way up to next to the top were: Everett Hewitt, Portsmouth, Virginia, who lost to Hag-

fellow contestants, but his case may be Following the cited as applicable to all. After each of same thought of the contestants had delivered a prepared first service oration of not less than ten nor more first, Carlisle

than twelve minutes, each speaker was, ( ) without previous knowledge of his sub- Post re-equipped ject, given five minutes to prepare a five a hospital ma- to six minute address on one section of ternity section. the Hill of Rights. Haggerty's assign- Already one ment was that section prohibiting the baby has been acceptances of foreign titles and awards. saved He gave a clear, moving and simple in- terpretation of the Constitution as not only a political document but a "code of ethics designed to protect human Railroad Post, of weakness and a desire for power and New Haven, pageantry." sends its hospital With poise and assurance, he spoke equipment right even more easily in his extemporaneous into the homes

26 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine gerty; Chester Warner, Savannah, Geor- gia, who was defeated by Overbey; Charles Wellborn, Gladewater, Texas, eliminated by Carlson, and Robert C. Stotler, Colfax, Washington, who was vanquished by Minihan.

Life Begins at Birth WHY wait until forty? Members of Neuman-Wenzel Post of Sturgis, Michigan, had a curious thought that life begins at birth and in order to make it possible for more men and women to reach the age of forty have presented a baby incubator to Sturgis Memorial Hospital. The incubator is for general community service and is for use particu- larly in cases of babies born prematurely or who for other reasons do not make satisfactory progress. "The American Legion has long wanted to do something for Sturgis Memorial Hospital," said Past Com- mander Maurice A. Wells in making the presentation, "and if this incubator Birthday cakes by the thousands were consumed in mid-March in honor saves the life of a single baby, we will of the Legion's twenty-first anniversary. James Harvey Post, Ventnor, feel amply repaid." Miss Olive Jane New Jersey, served the super-colossal cake shown above Brown, Hospital Superintendent, said that the hospital had frequent need of community when it recently appropri- fer with the hospital authorities and such an incubator, and could have used ated $1,000 to modernize and equip the members of the medical staff. The pur- one to advantage at least a dozen times maternity department of Carlisle Hospi- chase of maternity ward equipment was within the past year. tal. Included in the new equipment is a made by the Legion Committee to meet Past Commander Steve Schwebke modern gas machine for anesthesia, a the hospital's greatest need. reports that the money to make the pur- resuscitator-inhalator for new-born ba- "Value of this new equipment is not chase was raised within four days by bies, a large lamp, a portable blood pres- alone reckoned in dollars and cents," said Adjutant William Rice and Child Wel- sure apparatus and a bed which can be a member of the hospital staff. "Already fare Chairman Grover Watkins, and that converted into a table. one life has been saved, one of twins all contributions to the incubator fund Post Commander Edison S. Nickel born recently, and who knows how many were made by Legionnaires. named a committee composed of Chair- times in the ensuing years, in a hospital

Following the same line of thought, man .Allen J. Stevens, Ivan L. Carter, which sees three hundred and fifty de- Carlisle (Pennsylvania) Post made a Frederick J. Templeton, J. Frank Dun- liveries a year, the people of this com- great contribution to the welfare of its bar and Lawrence L. Sollenberger to con- munity may be grateful for this most re- cent thoughtfulncss and generosity of A red-letter event was celebrated by Leyden-Chiles-Wickersham The American Legion." Post, Denver, Colorado, when Membership Co-Chairman Charles Another service that embraces care Sandlin handed Thomas Sterling the 3,000th card. Commander of the old as well as the young is the Clarence Beales observes the performance home-hospital plan adopted by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail- road Post of New Haven, Connecticut, which, according to Service Officer A. H. Westphal, can be taken up by other Posts at a moderate cost. This service

is nothing more nor less than providing a hospital bed unit to be placed in homes in emergency cases. "A complete unit was purchased and put in service in De- cember, 1937. The idea was such a success that four other units have been added and Chairman Charles M. Kelley has

found it necessary at times to rent addi- tional beds to care for extremely emer- gent cases. A complete unit, which con- sists of a special bed, high grade mattres? and rubber sheet, costs $62. When a unit

is no longer needed in one home it is removed, completely sterilized and made ready for the next case.

"There is absolutely no charge for any part of this service," continues the Ser- vice Officer. "During the past two years we have had one hundred truck move- ments in servicing eleven male and twenty -seven {Continued on page 34)

JUNE, 1940 27 Left, an elephant-eared ob- servation balloon of the 2d Balloon Company operating in the Aisne-Marne Offensive. Compare it with, below, the present-day development of observation balloons

Elephant?

SPRING is here! Right now up in based upon the fact this part of the country you'd that Herbert was one

| never know it from the weather, of the two daddies of

but the calendar says so and . . . the first Balloon Corps the circus is in town! Circuses mean pea- veterans reunion in nuts and pink lemonade—and elephants, Portland, Oregon, those ponderous pachyderms of the during the 1932 Na- publicity propounder's pen. But hold tional Convention of everything! —we got into the wrong the Legion, from menagerie. The elephants of which we which developed the are about to hear are of another genus— National Association they are the kind that soared aloft be- American Balloon hind our lines or those of the enemy and Corps Veterans, one of were used to take a look-see at what the the fastest growing other guy might be doing. and most active of all But nowadays the old gray elephant, veterans organiza- V. S. ARMY AIR CORPS she ain't what she used to be—as will tions. The other daddy be readily observed was E. A. McKee, ex-balloonist of Long- with express-elevator speed to the ground. upon reference to the view, Washington. "Then: Ground observation by artil- lower picture on this After all, Comrade Herbert, it's your lery was practically impossible in '18, page. For the pictures story, so go ahead: moving planes were inaccurate, radio and the recital of bal- "If, Heaven forbid, war should strike communication uncertain, so the ar- loon corps lore that our country again, the 'Eyes of the tillerymen preferred the balloon as the follows, we are in- Army'—the observation balloons—will only accurate and satisfactory means debted to that active again take a very important part. News- of observation, assuring them of perfect

Legionnaire and No. i reels of the new European mess show the fire regulation and adjustment. Men balloonatic, Craig S. armies on the Western Front using the who served at the front in the A. E.

I lerbert, who writes to same type hydrogen-inflated 'sausage F. will remember the rows of ele- us from 3333 North balloons' that they used in 1917-1018, phant-eared, cigar-shaped 'kite' balloons 1 8th Street, Philadel- with the exception of the parachute. Now —of seeing them attacked by planes and phia, Pennsylvania. the entire basket, suspended from a of seeing the observers jump for their

That balloon rating is huge 'umbrella,' is released and drops lives in parachutes just before their gas-

28 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine A big-city version of the 40 and 8 took these C. A. C. men on the first leg of their journey to war. You're right—it's a trolley-car expedition from the Coast Defense Armory in the Bronx, New York City, to the training camp

bag collapsed in a mass of flame and Army Air Corps has advanced the art of are gone forever. In their place four ele- smoke. observation ballooning. It has adopted vators, locked in neutral position, and a "Each Balloon Company, under orders the new convertible, motorized, stream- two-piece rudder serve as stabilizers. The of an Army Corps, operated with one or lined, helium-fiDed, non-rigid Type C-6. new balloon has a ceiling of approxi- more Divisions in its immediate sector. It is made of impermeable neoprene mately 5500 feet compared to the 4000 Equipped with powerful binoculars and (synthetic rubber). With an airship car feet of our service days. All 'gassing' is coordinated maps, observers—one or powered by a small motor attached, it is expected to be done at its behind-the- two men—were 'let up' to varying capable of making from forty to fifty lines base, except in emergencies, thus heights, where by telephone they miles per hour. It can take off from its eliminating the handling of gas cylinders would direct artillery fire, report troop base, miles behind the lines, make a at the front —the bane of every man's movements, traffic on roads and rail- rendezvous with the winch truck and its existence. roads, location of ammunition dumps, small ground crew up forward with "It all sounds mighty fine—but there and so on. the artillery, land, and in a jiffy are one or two points that we oldtimers

"American balloon men shared the change over into an observation balloon can't figure out: One: If, as it is planned, same experiences and hardships of other by substituting a wicker basket for the the pilot takes off from the base at night, combat troops—sleeping on the ground, motorized gondola and, hooking onto the even if he does locate the proposed point eating poor chow, suffering the cold and winch cable and telephone connection, of observation, how can he land in the wet, and seldom if ever relieved as were be off to look over the enemy as before. dark without lights—lights, either on the troops in other branches of service. My Filled with helium, the new bag is less ground or in the air being, taboo at the outfit, the 2d Balloon Company, for vulnerable to attack. When it lands, it is front. Two: If planes attack, either while example, served in the lines for 244 days. attached to a mooring mast atop the the balloon is en route or at the point of

The balloon then used was the French winch truck from which it can swing ascension, there are bound to be many Cacquot Type R, made of rubberized around with the wind, thus avoiding bullet holes and much helium will silk in two sections—the upper cell for the turning of the truck or the aid of so escape, even though the balloon can be hydrogen for the 'lift,' and the lower for many 'hemp pullers' to keep it under patched. There, again, is the need of air to act as ballast to keep it from rolling. control. And the elephant ears and trunk gas cylinders at the front ! Three: While a As for its elephant ap- small ground crew is all that is required pearance—on the rear to handle the balloon and its rigging at were elephant-ear-like the point of ascension, it mustn't be over- stabilize rsanda' trunk' looked that there will still be need for air- rudder, filled with air, plane spotters, anti-aircraft gunners, all of which acted as telephone linemen, dispatch riders, chow does the tail on a kite details, and so on. So what? Only time —to keep the balloon will tell, gang!" riding steady and to And all is being made in readiness for keep it nosed directly the veteran gasbaggers to chew over into the wind. these problems in their line of wartime "Now: The U. S. work. Following established custom, the

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National Association American Balloon little fun at some of the methods of right! It's the early 1017 version of an Corps Veterans will again hold its annual transportation impressed into service American "Blitzkrieg"—and anyone who reunion—its ninth—with the Legion when we were fighting men—long before reads the daily papers knows that that National Convention. Headquarters have the days of so much motorization of means, in our language, 'lightning war.' already been reserved in the Hotel armies. And since the incident Gene re- Yes, sir, my outfit started out to war on Touraine, in the heart of Boston, over- lates occurred in the nation's foremost street cars. It was then known as the 8th looking Boston Common, and will be metropolis, New York—and he submits, Coast Defense Command, N. G., N. Y., open during the entire week of the Con- on the preceding page, pictorial proof of and was moving out of our new Armory vention. And, believe us, those balloon his account— it's all the funnier. at Kingsbridge Road and Jerome Avenue, atics know how to handle a reunion in "The speed with which we went to war up in the Bronx, New York City. style. A newly-organized Balloon Bed back in the good old days "The electric street (local "chapter" to us earthbound guys) of 1017," writes Com- cars wound a tortuous —No. 10—will play host, and the three rade Paltenghi, "is some- journey to Throggs Neck, thousand active members of the associa- what exemplified by the in neighboring West- tion—plus those vets who haven't yet enclosed picture of a New chester County, whence signed up, but will—can get details from York National Guard the outfit hiked the re- the reunion chairman, Cene Daley, 136 Regiment leaving its maining three miles from Highland Avenue, Somerville, Massa- Armory for active duty the end of the car line chusetts, who is also Adjutant of via, of all things, street to old Fort Schuyler,

Boston Bed No. 10. cars ! Fourteen months where all but one bat- later the regiment was talion continued across AMERICAN "Blitzkrieg"— 1017 style. under fire. The Germans Long Island Sound by - Thus was designated the contribu- were stunned—they had ferry to Fort Totten, tion we received from Legionnaire E. L. waited so long to sur- near Bayside, Long Is- (Gene) l'altenghi of 50 Bark Avenue, render! land. The regiment was Manchester, . "Now take a good look later the 58th Artillery, Well, maybe Gene's right in poking a at the snapshot. That's Coast Artillery Corps.

30 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine "For many years our regiment was as then and there without even knowing of the old comrades to attend. I hope famous as the 'Fighting 6oth' of the Rain- whether the service was Regular, Na- they'll write to me and tell me they'll bow Division. Before this coast defense tional Guard, Infantry, Artillery, Cav- be there." outfit became the 'Old 8th,' it was famous alry, or what-have-you. And thus I be- as the 'Washington Greys.' It supplied came a red-leg. ONE of the real pleasures of this job the bodyguard on the occasion when "We are planning a reunion-dinner of as Company Clerk comes from the General George Washington took the veterans of the regiment during the Le- many letters received by our contribu- oath of office as first President of the gion National Convention in Boston next tors and by us regarding almost every United States at the old Federal Hall September and here's an invitation to all picture or story that appears in these which stood at the corner of Wall and Nassau Streets in Manhattan. Later another President. Theodore Roosevelt, held a commission as First Lieutenant in the 8th. Battery F of the Third Bat- talion of our 58th Regiment carried on this tradition of honor-posts on the oc- casion of President Wilson's historic speech in which he accepted Germany's challenge to the use of force in the arbitrament of differences. "Lacking heavy tractor-drawn-type artillery when we got into the war, the Coast Artillery of both the Regular Array and the National Guard was called upon for trained personnel. The 26th, 27th, 20th, 31st and j2d Companies of our Regiment were used as the nucleus of the 58th Regiment of Coast Artillery. The regiment was composed of men of the Regular Army, the National Guard of New York and Maryland, and men of the National Army were used to bring the units up to wartime strength. Not all fighting during the World War took "The regiment used eight-inch British place overseas. Above, the 59th Company howitzers manufactured by the Midvale of Marines chased native rebels in Steel Company, and participated in the final phase of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. My enlistment in the regiment columns. That goes also for other feature was purely accidental. I happened to be stories and articles in the magazine. walking past the New York Public Li- Many a wartime friendship has been re- brary on Fifth Avenue during a noon- established. The only bad feature is hour in April. 1917, and found there a that the space limitation of this bulletin recruiting party, complete with band. I board prevents us from sharing these was accosted by an officer and joined up letters with all of the Then and Now Gang. But here's a case somewhat out of the When a plane took a header into San Diego Bay in the spring of ordinary: Instead of a fellow Legionnaire 1919, a crew of gobs from the U. S. S. Yorktown rescued the flier writing to express interest in a contribu- tion, we hear from a veteran of the army of our former enemy, who through Legion friends has had copies of the magazine made available to him. With the interest- ing air-view of Zeebrtigge, with its cap- tions in German, opposite, came a letter from Hans 11. Kiefer of 50 Exton Avenue, North Arlington, New Jersey, who sent "Cordial greetings from a Heinie vet- eran." Here's the letter: "The enclosed leaflet may interest you as an additional illustration for Jo Chamberlin's story 'St. George for Zee- briigge' w hich appeared in your January

issue. This leaflet is a reproduction of an aerial photo of the harbor of Zeebriigge, showing the effects of the British naval expedition in iqiS. William Heaslip, the artist, deserves particular praise for the life-true sketch illustrating Chamberlin's article. A comparison with the enclosed reproduction shows an amazing roo per- cent accuracy of his illustration. "This leaflet was dropped in great British fliers over and behind •"SSi'lUHM." numbers by the German lines (Continual on page 50) JUNE, 1940 31 —

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{Continual from page ij) disorganized government kept from him attention to the contrast between this the epitome of the fine character of the vital supplies. Yet for four years the scene and that of a meeting held in a Old South. And beside him stands Abra- Army of Northern Virginia which he railroad car in 1918 where high officers ham Lincoln, whom H. G. Wells, the commanded wrote a record of exploits with stars and orders and titles had come English historian, has included in his list that has never been equaled. together to discuss terms for an armistice. of the six greatest immortals of all history. His greatness, however, lies more in "The small-town, undistinguished Hiram He was born in a log cabin. He came the sincerity and purity of his character. Grant," Adams says, "uncultured and from the common people and retained More than a soldier he was a gentleman, untraveled, looms above them all as a throughout his life their viewpoint. He and if ever an army loved its leader those chivalrous gentleman and a magnani- had lived on the frontier and did not lose ragged, barefooted, hungry, gray-clad mous conqueror, as in a few words in that the vision of a great nation built upon the men loved General Lee. Even when at little farmhouse in 1865, in shabby boundless faith of the pioneer. More than last the realization dawned on them that fatigue uniform, he adds healing to the once he was disappointed, and then fate their cause was lost they continued to peace." put him in the White House at a time fight —not so much for the Confederacy At that historic meeting in the Forest when the country had become "a house as for "Marse" Lee. of Compiegne in 191 8 and in the Ver- divided against itself." He was con-

So on April 9, 1865, these two men sailles conference that followed were tinually beset by job seekers and army came together in a farm house. They sown seeds that have finally resulted in contractors, and politicians even of his shook hands and sat down. Grant, who another great war. But the fruit of own party criticized him. An English had just finished a hard ride to come and Appomattox has been a united America, correspondent who interviewed him early who appeared tired, began to talk about distinctive among the nations of the in the war described him as the ugliest old times and of the men they had known world as a real commonwealth. Our popu- man he had ever seen. together in the Army of other days. lation is composed of diverse groups and But behind that homeliness was a great Finally General Lee turned the conversa- races, we have gone through two wars heart filled with the spirit of sympathy tion to the matter at hand. Grant asked since then, we have faced numerous and longing for peace. And today, on for paper and pencil, and in a few simple problems arising out of economic crises this seventy-fifth anniversary of his words set down th2 terms of surrender. but in the darkest hour we have con- death, when strange ideologies have The terms held no bitterness, nothing in tinued to stand shoulder to shoulder as sprung up to plague us and many nations those words to injure the fierce pride of Americans in the firm faith "that govern- are again engaged in war, it is well for the Southerner—officers were to retain ment of the people, by the people, for the Americans to acquaint themselves anew their sidearms and any enlisted man who people, shall not perish from the earth." with that spirit. Part of it can be found in claimed a horse or a mule was to keep it These were the words of President the last paragraph of his Second In- as he would need it for. the "spring plow- Abraham Lincoln, spoken at the dedica- augural Address: ing." Tactfully Grant had not made it tion of the Gettysburg battlefield. The "With malice toward none, with necessary for Lee to offer his sword in brave men, both North and South, who charity for all, with firmness in the right surrender. struggled there had consecrated more as God gives us to see the right, let us Reading the terms, Lee recognized in than just a battlefield; they had conse- strive on to finish the work we are in; to them the generosity of a fellow gentle- crated a nation that today pays honors bind up the nation's wounds, to care for man. "This will do much to conciliate our to the heroes of the Confederacy equal to him who shall have borne the battle, and people," he said quietly. And the war those of the North. After all, they were for his widow and his orphan—to do all was over! Americans, and among the greatest of which may achieve and cherish a just and James Truslow Adams, in his interpre- these was Robert E. Lee. lasting peace among ourselves, and with tative history, The Epic of America, calls Lee will always remain in our minds as all nations."

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Haw, who is probably Margaret. "Gairls military secrets to Germany, broadcast the nazis. An hour later they are likely of Britain —listen to me," appeals Lady regularly from Berlin until January 1, to include a crying baby and wailing Haw Haw in an overdone Mayfair accent. 1040. Then he went to Bavaria with a mother to prove that Britain's blockade "I used to be proud of my country! variety actress, said to be the same is inhuman. Now I know that England, tainted with woman to whom he sold the military Special broadcasts to France, Italy and Jewish ideas, must know the suffering of secrets. There they were to have started Canada have recently reminded their war for its own regeneration. a moving picture company, but never Catholic listeners that mass is always "I read with disgust of precautions to did. Early in February a new station said on the West Wall before the nazi make sure that you really go to bed and began broadcasting German propaganda warriors go into battle. Captured British don't go running off to have fun with the in English. Reliable informants assert soldiers and airmen—real or pretended — soldiers and air force fellows at nearby the new station was Baillie-Stewart's are put on to tell their folks at home that camps. Gairls—women are treated dif- real reason for going south. the German prison camps are better ferently here. They are regarded as Nazi playlets are designed to show that than first class hotels. An American human beings. The beastly things that happiness and contentment reign in the broadcaster recognized one of the "pris- happen in London can't happen in land of Hitler. A Hamburg butcher will oners" as a nazi frequently seen around Berlin!" be heard explaining to his women cus- the station.

Captain Baillie-Stewart, a Scotch tomers that there is absolutely no short- Some time ago Lord Haw Haw and army officer who was sentenced to two age, that they need but name their meat cohorts offered a playlet called "Lloyd's years in the Tower of London for selling to get it. Inconsistency never troubles of London." The famous Lutine Bell of

Tin- AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 33 Lloyd's kept ringing to announce to the one of the survivors. Secretly the mother and two tablespoons of sugar," which underwriters that ship after ship had been was visited by the town grocer and told must make Germans think of their own sunk. Englishmen just laughed. Every the good news. Shortly afterwards the menus. Britisher knows that the Lutine Bell is tailor demanded to see the family in pri- The British frequently rebroadcast not rung every time a ship is lost, but vate. He told the same story. Three items picked up from the "German Free- only for news of special importance, such other friends similarly risked their lives. dom" station, which has supposedly been as word that a ship long overdue has been The memorial service was carried out as operating inside Germany for years, heard from. planned, but afterward there was a wine Hitting about from place to place in a

The Hamburg station began a nightly celebration held behind closed shutters. truck. Radio engineers say that it would series of threats against factories take five or six trucks to carry in England and Scotland. Each equipment for such a station and

night one plant would be named, that more probably it has been its war products enumerated, its operating from the French bordet camouflage described, and its air zone all the time. Along with an raid shelters listed. Nazi bombers Austrian Freedom station, and would soon blow it to bits, said another Free German station in the voice. It was my bad luck France, this pirate outfit is a that the station picked on plants constant headache to the nazis. at Manchester, Sheffield, and Germany's technique in the Lincoln just the evening before I earls - months of the war was to arrived to visit them. More try to split the Allies. Day after publicity was the last thing the day, its broadcasts in French managers wanted and an Ameri- reiterated the quip, "Britain will can journalist was welcome as tight to the last Frenchman." smallpox. But what would the Chief nazi broadcaster to France

British have thought if the Ger- is Paul Ferdonnet, whom the man broadcast had come the French call "The Traitor of night after I visited the plants? Stuttgart." "French women, So far in this radio war the where are your men?" he will ask. Germans are firing the most shots "All at the front, fighting for the —sending out five times more bankers and the British. And broadcasts in English than the where are the British? Poilus, tell B.B.C. sends in German—but me, have you ever seen a British the British are scoring the most soldier at the front? Where are "Light or dark?" hits. Any German willing to risk they? I'll tell you. They're back detection to listen to a British of the front, enjoying themselves broadcast is ripe for anti-nazi programs. The B.B.C. makes much of the fact with your wives and daughters!" The nazis have established a special that the nazis do not allow open listening Ferdonnet's campaign has been a com- court to try listeners. The penalties are to foreign stations. "Himmler tells you plete failure. He has pulled several severe—four to six years at hard labor. it would be bad for your nerves to listen boners. One night he introduced a

If the culprit repeats what he has heard, to foreign broadcasts. But it is not your "French prisoner of war," Raymond or allows his radio to be heard by anyone nerves that he is afraid of, German peo- Herve, gave details of Herve's unit, then else, he may get a death sentence. Fre- ple. It is your thoughts—and your memo- his address in France, and finally allowed quently the German press carries notices ries. You are being fed on lies. We in Eng- him to send his love to his wife. The real of executions for this "treason." land, on the other hand, listen nightly to Raymond Herve was spending a week's But the Germans continue to listen. the nazi broadcasts, with no fear that a leave at home and actually heard the Safest way is to have one radio blaring policeman eavesdrops at the window." broadcast. He has no idea how the Ger- the output of a nazi station, while an- The British news broadcasts in German mans got details of his identity. other set is softly tuned to a foreign are extremely matter-of-fact, carefully French broadcasts to Germany are broadcast. Small foreign-made sets are building up a reputation for accuracy. quite similar to the British —annotated sometimes concealed inside the standard Impressive to the Germans is the fact sections from Hitler's :;peeches, with em- German radio, which can pick up only that the B.B.C. reads both the Allied phasis on his broken promises, and the the nazi stations. and the German official communiques, courageous speeches of Pastor Martin One German will ask another what he w hile the nazis, of course, never do. Niemoeller. "dreamt" last night. The second will British broadcasts play phonograph The French have successfully disposed reply that he had a wonderful dream, records of extracts from speeches and of the "Britain will fight to the last that, for instance, the Ark Royal has not writings by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, Frenchman" crack by describing the been sunk. "That's peculiar," the other Goebbels, and Hitler himself. "Hitler has B.E.F. in the front lines and narrating answers; "I dreamt the same thing!" The always lied to you," the British an- the part played by the British navy and ruse is not a very subtle one but is much nouncer will begin. "He inisted that he air force. used. was persecuting the communists to save There has been very little jamming of The B.B.C. often plays a few bars of Europe from bolshevism, and now he the air, simply because jamming brings

"Ich halt' einen Kameraden," the old is a bosom companion of Stalin. Just lis- easy retaliation. During her attack on German Army song of mourning, then ten to what he said of Russia on page 346 Poland, Germany used fake broadcasts reads off a list of recently-captured Ger- of the first German edition of 'Mein on Polish wave lengths, but she has man soldiers, sailors and airmen. This is Kampf." moved on to the B.B.C. wave lengths excellent bait for listeners, since the nazis Broadcasts which deal with shortages only once during the past six months, and do not always reveal such news at home. of food and material strike home. The that was at two in the morning, when few A woman in East Prussia received offi- Ministry of Economic Warfare gives the people were tuned in. cial word from the government that her B.B.C. the basic material. Sometimes Seveial secret German-propaganda sta- son had been lost in the sinking of a sub- the British announcer will put on a tions operating in Britain have kept marine. A memorial service was arranged "program for housewives" and quite British radio engineers on the jump. in the village church. An hour or so later, casually read off recipes which call for These pirate stations are of doubtful the B.B.C. announced the bov's name as "four eggs, a quarter of a pound of butter, value; they are {Continued on page 34)

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soon tracked down and their audiences the British and thus give the German their latest victim goes to the bottom. are very limited. pe« pie a fanatical reason for fighting. These broadcasts are written and acted All belligerents, of course, pay the The British Empire is always "blood- by German "Propaganda Kompanies," closest attention to enemy broadcasts stained." No accident in Germany is made up of former newspaper men and have elaborate listening and record- allowed to pass without the comment, trained in a school at Potsdam. The re- ing organizations. "A number of suspicious strangers with ception of the programs has been excellent.

English accents were noticed at (he Many German families daily make it a CHIEF nazi broadcaster to the United scene and are now being sought by the point not to miss them. States is Fred Kaltenbach, a former police." Following every home news bulletin Iowan. Curiously enough, he served in Thus far, the British Secret Service and especially after the announcement of the U. S. Army in 1018. He went to Ber- has been blamed for the deaths of: the sinking of another British warship, lin for his Ph.D., married a German girl Archduke Francis Ferdinand at Sarajevo, the nazi stations blare out their Hymn and joined the nazi propaganda organiza- King Alexander of Jugoslavia, King of Hate, a brassy march, "Dann wir fah- tion. Feisal of Iraq, King Ghazi of Iran, and ren gegen England" ("For we are sailing Once a week he reads a letter to "Dear M. Calinescu, the Rumanian Premier. toward England!") Harry," a former schoolmate and frater- British victories are never admitted. The Unlike the German stations, the B.B.C. nity brother named Harry Hagemann, defeat of the Craf Spee is still attributed makes no effort to broadcast morale- who is a Waverly, Iowa, lawyer. "... Man, either to the use of gas shells by the boosting programs. Dance music and what a picture it is to see Hermann Goe- British cruisers or to the unfavorable variety shows are broadcast direct to the ring's birds soaring swiftly overhead!" and biased attitude of the Uruguayan troops in France every afternoon, but he declaims. "Boy, are they fast! Now, government. for home listeners programs are largely don't let the British drag America into No day is complete without a bioad- educational. Typical of the difference this thing, Harry. Don't pull Britain's cast verbatim of a visit to the front, with between Germany and Britain was one chestnuts out of the tire again." That last the thud of ritle butts, the stamping of B.B.C. series entitled, "How to listen to has been used before. boots and the bark of military commands. German propaganda." Kaltenbach does little harm but he There are broadcasts supposed to come Radio has already proved its value continues to embarrass his onetime from airplanes out on reconnaissance as an offensive and defensive weapon. friends in Iowa. work. German raiding parties comment The generals are apt to snort their con-

The radio is now the chief weapon for into a handy microphone on their return tempt, but the histor'ans of the second bolstering German morale. Since Sep- from sorties in no-man's-land. Submarine World War will not. Radio is the fourth

tember 3, 10.30, every effort has been commanders pop their heads out of their arm of a nation's fighting forces, the new- made to stir up a genuine hate against conning towers to describe the scene as est and one of the most powerful.

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was made here, too. Beverly and Marble- Plymouth you come to Quincy, where Leif Ericson long before Columbus was head still argue as to which is the birth- two American Presidents were born, lived born. On the mainland here is Fall River place of the American Navy. In Marble- and are buried, and where the first rail- (remember that song?), still a great tex- head, incidentally, is the original of a road in the United States was laid —to tile city. You won't see Lizzie Borden painting known to every American school take Quincy granite to Charlestown for there any more, but they'll show you the child—"The Spirit of '76"—which is on the Bunker Hill Monument. In Marsh- remnants of a still older mystery—the view in the town library. field is the estate of the late and sonorous remains of the Skeleton in Armor, made

( )ld Gloucester, where men have been Dan'l Webster, Esq., a Dartmouth boy famous by Longfellow. going down to the sea since 1623, is who made good, and the house of Gover- Beyond Plymouth is Cape Cod Canal worth a call, and so is Rockport, a haven nor Winslow, filled with antiques. You and the Cape itself—sixty-five miles of for marine artists. Salem has the House shouldn't hurry through this country, for wild headlands, sun-drenched sand, light- of the Seven Gables, complete with there is so much to see. Duxbury abounds houses, a windmill or two, and the ghost and hidden stairway, and the no- in Pilgrim lore; here are the Myles Stand- originals of an architecture that is all torious Witch House. It also has the ish Monument and the John Alden American—the Cape Cod Salt Box. The Essex Institute—a library and museum House, and in nearby Scituate, for con- Cape is salty, weatherbeatcn, and wild where countless Americans come each trast, is the vast mansion of Thomas and calm by turns. Any of its ancient year to trace the foundings of their fami- Lawson (Legionnaires will recall his fishing villages appeals to the artist of lies in the United States. Inland a bit, frenzied Finance) as well as the immortal brush or camera. Down at the very tip is

1 1 if inspired Samuel its 1 Woodworth, nr. r I l;i verill, is he birl hplai e John well which Provincetown, with colonies of artists Greenleaf Whittier, who doubtless would native author, to compose The Old Oaken and writers, some of them long-haired, not approve of the North Shore's swell Bucket. Famed Nantasket Beach is on the and everywhere on the Cape are the horse race track at Suffolk Downs or of South Shore, and so is Cohasset, with its justly famous blueberry dumplings, blue- the dog track at Revere. celebrated clams. tish, and quahog (pronounced co-hog) From Boston to the Cape Cod Canal Those with an interest in the subject chowder.

is the South Shore, a drive through trim might run over to old New Bedford, All roads in Massachusetts lead to and villages and along the coast to The Rock famous for whales and whalers before from Boston. That's why natives, borrow- at old Plymouth. The famous Rock is Moby Dick became a movie, and even ing from the first Oliver Wendell Holmes,

still there, in full view but protected from make the run to Nantucket and Martha's proudly refer to it as The Hub. From souvenir hounds by grating. Driving to Vineyard, two historical islands known to Boston to Portland, Maine, is a two-hour

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 35 drive. New Hampshire's White Moun- vention, and he and his horse will appear are homes that once housed the Swedish tains and lakes are three hours away; on the official badge. Everyone knows Nightingale, Jennie Lind, and the actress, Vermont's Lake Champlain, with neigh- about his ride but not all know he was Minnie Maddern Fiske. In nearby Con- boring Fort Ticonderoga, and the Green Boston's most eminent dentist and a fine cord is Orchard House, home of the Mountains, are about the same distance. craftsman in copper and silver. At the Alcotts for several years, where Louisa The Barre quarries, the largest granite Boston Museum of Fine Arts, in the Ma>' wrote the first part of her most producing district in the United States, proper setting of authentic Colonial famous book. are another Vermont show place that rooms, are hundreds of pieces of Revere's Moored in Charlestown, in sight of Conventionnaires will want to see. craftsmanship, as well as a portrait of Bunker Hill, is the Constitution —Old But you don't have to leave Boston to Paul by the celebrated, if Tory, Copley, Ironsides. And if you go up Breed's Hill get variety. You can fish and sail in to Bunker Hill Monument—it the harbor, and boat on the isn't much of a climb—you ought Charles. Golf courses and tennis to stop a moment at the statue of courts are almost without number. Colonel William Prescott, not only And don't for a moment get the because he said, "Don't fire until idea there is a shortage of whoopee you see the whites of their eyes," places in town. Boston's galaxy of but also because it is one of the night spots ranges from swank finest statues you'll ever see. Take hotels to joints with sawdust on the it in profile, or head-on; note the floor and Frankie & Johnnie in the expression of the face, even to the juke-box. The theater season will eyes; note the simple easy grace of be on in September and here, for the posture. If you don't get a much less money, you can see the thrill from the statue and the cir- shows that will be on Broadway by cumstance of its subject, you had October. better see your doctor.

If like many who are approach- But if your feet are bad, or if you ing middle age, you have come to are naturally lazy, or if you simply wonder something about those want to sit and ponder the scene, rugged old parties who first brought then don't for a moment leave Bos- your name to the New World, then ton Common. Sit there in sunshine the Massachusetts Historical So- and shadow and let the shades of ciety and the Boston Public Li- "What puzzles me is where they hauled the past troop by. They are here, brary are fine prospecting ground. the dirt!" most of them. Spanish War volun- A good share of the early records of teers marched here when you were old American families are there and so are and other portraits of Paul and the just getting out of diapers. The Boys of '6 incredibly patient and courteous people second Mrs. Revere by Gilbert Stuart. 1 drilled on the Common. So did home- to help you. In the Library alone are At the Fine Arts also is the original of spuns with flintlocks. And before even approximately one million cards con- Stuart's portrait of George Washington, them. Lord Howe's redcoats bivouacked cerning branches of families. and many oils of the Founding Fathers. here, until Continental artillery on Dor- Possibly by now, when the Legion is As this is written, Cyrus E. Dallin is chester Heights got their range. twenty-one years old, higher education at work on an equestrian statue of Recruiting officers for every American may be a leading topic in your family. If Revere, exactly fifty-six years after the war have held forth on the Common. so, you've come to the right place. Some- city of Boston accepted Dallin's model The Adamses, the Hancocks, the War- body once paraphrased Webster's oft for the statue but failed to appropriate rens, all pastured their cows on the Com- misquoted remark "Massachusetts, there cash. ("The first fifty years are the mon. Ethan Allen came here to buy she stands!" to "There she teaches." And hardest," says Dallin.) This work will be powder for his Green Mountain Boys. it's true that the concentration of educa- finished before Convention time and will Dan'l Webster spoke here. So did the tional institutions in this State is surpris- be placed on Paul Revere Mall, in Bos- Marquis de Lafayette. Here, in the halls ing. Seeing either Harvard or Massachu- ton's North End, not far from Revere's and churches around the green, Parker setts Institute of Technology is a trip in house, which is open to visitors. and Sumner and Phillips spoke against itself. Guides at both places will show you There are a number of statues in town slavery, and here Garrison was dragged the sights, or you can go it alone. Rad- worth seeing. On the Common is one of with a rope around his neck. Emerson cliffe is handy, so are WeUesley, Tufts, the few monuments dedicated to a liked to walk the Common. So did Haw- Andover, Simmons, Boston College and Negro—Crispus Attucks, a victim of the thorne, Longfellow, Doctor Holmes. Boston University. Worcester has Clark so-called Boston Massacre. In the Old And in this year of 1940, when the few and Holy Cross, as well as a grand art State House, if you ask, an attendant democracies left seem in danger of infec- museum and the wonderful collections of will show you the picture of the Massacre, tion by intolerance, it might be well to the American Antiquarian Society. done by none other than P. Revere, the reflect, while sitting here under the elms, Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Amherst, Fxeter, well-known artist and engraver. On the on other things that have taken place on Groton, Andover, and Brown, all are Common also is a statue to Thaddeus the Common. In 1660, for instance, one within easy driving distance from Boston. Kosciuszko, the Polish lad whom Wash- Mary Dyer, whose only and sufficient So are Yale, Williams, Dartmouth, ington made a general. In the adjoining offense was that she was a Quaker, was Middlebury, Colby and Bowdoin. Public Garden is one of the finest pieces hanged here; and a bit later three other Industrial museums have been men- in town—the brooding figure of Edward unfortunate women met a like fate on tioned. In Boston is the unique Children's Everett Hale. And what did he do? He this same ground. These women were Museum, a fascinating place as difficult wrote The Man Without a Country. neither reds nor nazis nor fascists, nor yet to get adults to leave as it is the young- Do girls of today read Little Women/ I Jews, Catholics, or Protestants. A court sters. The several museums of Harvard don't know, but I'm guessing that the held thev were witches. are open to the public, and Boston's wives of most Legionnaires have read it,

Museum of Natural History is noted and five minutes' walk from the Common nationally for its new and most realistic will take them to quaint and quiet Louis- National Convention exhibits of wild life. burg Square, on Beacon Hill, and the Boston Paul Revere is to be a sort of watch- brick house where Louisa May Alcott did September 23d to 26th word, a countersign, at the Boston con- much of her writing. On the Square, too,

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" 'Tis a grand home ye have, ma'am, Elizabeth was completely nonplussed ye must be happy livin' in it." and somehow irritated that Nora, her "I doubt if one's possessions contribute cleaning woman, should presume to do much toward one's happiness," Elizabeth her a neighborly kindness. Years of living answered curtly. in a frozen shell of reticence had left their "Maybe not, ma'am," Nora grinned, mark upon her.

"but, sure, 'twould be a fine thing to "Wait now," beamed Nora, "while I know that the little ones would always go to the kitchen and heat it up for ye." have enough to eat and be warm." Nora hustled out to the kitchen and Nora scrubbed industriously for a soon returned with the bowl of pungent, few moments but she loved to talk and steaming onion-soup.

cabbage hung about the place like in- nothing stilled her tongue for long. "Ye must eat it while it's hot. 'Twill cense. "Ye shouldn't be unhappy, ma'am, make ye feel much better." A small girl with tight red braids like ye really ought to know ye shouldn't. Elizabeth, reclining on a chaise-

small carrots, was vigorously scrubbing Ye'd be surprised how much joy there is lounge, accepted the proffered gift the front steps. in livin' once ye get the hang of it." grudgingly.

"Gramma, Gramma," she shouted, Nora wiped her damp forehead with the "My Jimmy used to love it and so do and a flock of children burst from the back of her rough hand. "Years ago the little ones. Spry as crickets they are, door. when I first lost me boy, Jimmy, Father Lord love 'em." Nora settled her grotesque straw hat Connell came and talked to me. He told Nora heaved a sigh. "If only me poor more securely upon her head, gathered me all about how our Lord has written man was as well. The doctor keeps a sav-

her skirt tightly around the onions, and it all out in the Good Book for just such in' he should go to the hot springs; alighted from the car to the round-eyed as me. All ye need to do, so he said, was 'twould help his arthritis, but heavenly amazement of the eagerly waiting chil- to forget your own troubles for a time days, that would take a mint o' money. dren. They crowded around her, delighted and do someone else a kindness. 'Tis Here I stand a chewin' the fat with ye

at her return and astonished beyond just as easy as that and, begorra, it whin I should be on me way to work. words to see her arrive in such style. works!" I go to Mrs. Van Dyke's today and to- "I shall expect you on Tuesday morn- Nora chuckled as she vigorously morrow." ing. I live at 21 Forsythe Place and my sloshed the cleaning cloth around in "Thank you very much for the soup.

name is Mrs. Douglas Archer. I am so the pail of sudsy water and wrung it dry It was very kind of you." Elizabeth's lips sorry that I struck you with my car and with strong, capable fingers. "Sure, I get spoke the words but her eyes denied

it is fortunate that you were not injured. down in the dumps now and then meself, them.

Goodby." Elizabeth released the clutch but all I need to'do to cure 'em is to make '"Tis welcome ye are and I'll not be and the big car moved quietly away. a nice bowl of onion soup for some poor through with me work in time to go to Nora waved her free hand and called soul who needs a bit o' cheer." the cemetery tomorrow if I don't get after her, "Good day to yez, thank ye Elizabeth glanced disdainfully at the along. Faith I've never missed a Memorial kindly for the ride. I'll be there on Tues- kneeling figure and left the kitchen. Day yet, but work is like the poor— 'tis day; ye can count on me." Her gray satin house-coat made little always with us." Nora chuckled as she The dust from the unpaved street whispering sounds as she walked, a trim, prepared to leave. "I'll finish in time to rolled up in a cloud as Elizabeth left erect figure for all her sixty-five years. get out to the cemetery, come evenin'.

the neighborhood and resumed her Nora worked at the Archer home two Good day to ye and I hope ye '11 be feelin' journey to the cemetery. days in each week thereafter. One eve- better." She placed the exquisite spray of or- ning when Elizabeth complained of a Nora clumped down the steps and up chids beside the white cross which slight cold she was much concerned and the street. Her faded blue gingham dress marked her son's grave. Kneeling silently, appeared next morning bearing a small was a little short in back and a white she pressed her forehead against the cold earthen-ware bowl of onion soup. cotton petticoat showed beneath it. stone. It was scarcely whiter than her Memorial Day dawned sunny and softly waved hair. She drew off her warm. Elizabeth, completely recovered gloves to arrange the flowers and her from her cold but unable to face the day hands, though lined with age, were soft with all its bitter memories, closed the and well manicured. A husky sob es- door, drew the shades, and stayed home caped her tight lips but her eyes were alone with her grief. Toward evening dry and tortured as she rose to her feet when she thought the crowds would and wearily retraced her steps to her have left the cemetery, she dressed in car. trim, tailored clothes, adjusted a small Promptly on the following Tuesday black hat over her smoothly waved white morning, Nora O'Brien knocked at the hair, and carrying a spray of orchids, back door of the palatial Archer home. left her house. After being admitted she wasted no time She drove directly to Mt. Calvary in getting the cleaning under way. Pin- Cemetery. It was sundown and the birds ning her skirts snugly around her stout were twittering their evening song as hips, she knelt on plump knees and she walked up the familiar path to the scrubbed the tile floor in the kitchen. Archer family plot. Here and there a Her hands were rough and her fingernails small flag and a wreath of bright red were broken and grubby. Her face was poppies marked the resting place of a soon damp with perspiration and she W orld War veteran. The hush and quiet paused to push back a stray lock of "Next time you salute the admiral of evening was over it all. The spirea grayish red hair. —don't aim!" hung in great snowy cascades and the The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 37 faintly sickish, sweet fragrance of many 9 dying cut flowers hung in the still spring 0tL air.

"I'm sorry, ma'am, if I'm intrudin'. I never once thought about this bein' your boy's grave. Sure, 'twas stupid of me for it says 'James Archer,' plain as day on the cross. I've been savin' a bit of a prayer here on Memorial Day for many a year. Ye see my boy's name was Jimmy, too, and I've no way of kneelin' at his grave since 'tis far across the water they laid him." "You are not intruding, Nora," Eliza- beth answered as she knelt beside the white cross. She touched the small flag and spray of red poppies lovingly as she placed the exotic, mauve orchids beside them. Removing her hat she pressed her troubled head against the white stone. A slight breeze ruffled her white hair. Deep compassion stirred in Nora's great heart and because "the colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady are sisters under the skin," she stooped and laid her work- roughened hand kindly upon Elizabeth's shoulder. Something about the simple friendly gesture pierced the frozen shell of Elizabeth's pent up grief and she wept in great shivering sobs. The tears coursed unheeded down her cheeks. "There, there, just cry your poor heart out; ye'll feel the better for it," Nora spoke gently. "But you can't possibly understand. I shall never find peace for I can never be forgiven. Oh, Jimmy boy, if only you could have forgiven me before you died," Elizabeth sobbed aloud. Nora's sympathy and understanding had opened the floodgates and all the repressed grief and longing of twenty bitter years poured like a devastating flood upon Elizabeth's bent shoulders. "There now, tell ould Nora all about it. 'Twill ease the poor heart of ye." Nora sat down beside the weeping woman. Unable to resist the temptation to share her burden of grief, Elizabeth poured out her story between quivering sobs, as she and Nora sat side by side on the soft grass. "James was our only child. He was THE just seventeen when war was declared. NATIONAL He had only a half semester left in JOY SMOKE high-school and {Continued on page j8)

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" was already registered in Harvard. he said, 'sent the poor kid out there him, but that quick he was gone.'

Young as he was, he displayed keen alone to die. I could forgive you if the Nora paused and looked hard at Eliza- legal talent and such a sunny, care- boy had, but since he couldn't, no more beth. "That was the last letter we had free disposition. His father and I were can I.' Our life since that time has from him. Somehow the luck o' the Irish extremely proud of him, of course." been only a semblance of living. We failed him and he never made it home.

Elizabeth paused as the crushing mem- brought James's body back but it has 'Twas God's will, no doubt." Nora de- ory came flooding over her. She twisted been no comfort. I have utterly lost voutly crossed herself. her gloves in her tense fingers as she went them both." Elizabeth sobbed the "Oh, Nora, Nora, you've no idea on. "When war was declared he was harder and Nora drew her head to her what this means to me. May I see the among the first to enlist. His father com motherly breast and comforted her as she letter? Oh, please, let me read those last mended him for his patriotism but I was would a hurt child. precious words." Elizabeth cried out in bitterly opposed to it. We quarreled day During Elizabeth's recital she had been eagerness as she jumped to her feet. and night about it. Finally, in a fury, I doing some quick thinking. "Faith, ma'am, twenty years is a long absolutely forbade him to go and told "Will ye forgive a poor, silly ould time and many's the time we have him if he did, he need not come back." woman who has had the means o' healin' moved, here and there. The letter has Elizabeth paused and looked at Nora. your broken heart all these years and been lost this long time. But I'm remem-

"Oh, I know you are wondering how I hadn't the wits to know it?" she burst berin' it, ma'am, just like I told ye," could say such a thing to a boy I loved. forth. Nora insisted. I wonder, too, now. I was beside myself "What do you mean?" Elizabeth "God bless you, Nora, you have almost with fear of losing him — I think I was raised her head in astonishment. Her face given me back my boy.'' Elizabeth's nearly out of my mind. He said—he was wet with tears and she was shaken face was alight with joy and relief as she hoped he never would come back—such with the tumult of her emotions. extended her hand to Nora. bitter words! He left with his company "Easy now, and Ell tell ye. 'Twas in Grasping the proffered hand, Nora and I would not go down to the station to the last letter we got from our Jimmy. I rose stiffly to her feet. see him off. His regiment was one which remember it like 'twas yesterday." "I must be goin'. The little ones at was sent overseas very soon and those Nora gulped a little and plunged on. "I home will be needin' me and me poor cruel words were the last we heard him I think I can tell you all that was in the man has no supper yet. No doubt ye say. He was in the trenches in less than letter. 'My buddy, James Archer, stopped will want to say a bit of a prayer— two months and was killed in their first one today,' he wrote. 'He was goin' over alone?" major engagement." the top when it got him. I helped him Elizabeth laid her soft, well-manicured Elizabeth covered her face with trem- back to the trench but I could see he was hand on Nora's shabby shoulder. "I bling hands. The last vestige of her pride goin' fast. "O'Brien," he says, "Em done can never tell you how grateful I am for and arrogance had vanished, leaving in for. No doubt you will have the luck o' what you have told me. I shall find some its place only grief and humility. "The the Irish and ye'll make it back home. way of showing my appreciation." first word we had of him was the tele- Whin ye get there tell me mother every- " 'Tis welcome ye are," Nora trudged gram from the Government telling us of thing's forgiven. Tell her I love her and down the path in the gathering dusk. At a his death. My husband was crushed. He I'm sore grieved that I quarreled with turn in the path she paused and looked could not forget my last cruel words to her.'" back. "Holy and merciful Mother Mary, James. I think he, in a way, blamed me " 'And where is your mother livin' will ye be forgivin' a lyin' ould woman?" for our son's death. 'Your bitter tongue,' and how shall I find her?' my boy asked she murmured.

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calching and is not reluctant to say so, When Cochrane ran Detroit he had old coverings to auto makers in job lots thinks that Mickey Cochrane was the Ralphy Perkins by his side as coach and drawing down a good salary. It's outstanding catcher in the game. Connie and assistant. Cochrane's greatness as a nice, easy work but he's not a happy in recalling some of his backstops like catcher, leader and hitter was recog- gent. Jack Lapp, Paddy Livingstone, Ira nized after his accident in 1937. Struck in He'd much rather be back on a ball Thomas and Doc Powers and on down the temple by a sailer thrown by Bump field arguing with an ump, stamping up to Perkins stated that Mickey wasn't Hadley of the Yankees, his great fight and down a dugout yelling at his players afraid to tell the old master occasionally for his life won for Mickey the respect to get in there and fight, and listening that he was wrong on plays. Connie and admiration of the fans of to the shouts and howls of the fans. used to call practically all the pitches the nation. It may here be recalled that Many conflicting tales are whispered from the bench, just as McGraw did Mickey was injured under similar cir- why Mickey was shelved. Some say he when he had catchers as great as Bresna- cumstances in 1 03 1. Then a member of wanted to dictate the policies of the club; han and Meyers. Many times in tough the Athletics, he had a homer off others mention that he could not get spots Black Mike would veto Connie's Sergeant Connally, pitching for Cleve- along with his players. signals and do as he pleased. In all the land, and then was hit by a pitched ball Perhaps having his skull fractured and years he caught for Connie he was on his next trip to the plate. He recovered the breaking down of his health had wrong only a couple of times. There within a few days. much to do with his release. Those close weren't many who thought Cochrane Today Cochrane is out of baseball and to him say he's still the same congenial could run a team and plot strategy, out- no one in these United States regrets it fellow that he was behind the plate. side of Mack—but Mickey delivered more than Mickey himself. He's now a Mickey certainly still has the old fight of when he took over the . tire salesman de luxe peddling wheel a catcher in his blood, for catchers have

The AMERICAN' LEGION Magazine to do more fighting than any member of a team. Today you will find him around a visiting team in a Detroit hotel lobby encouraging the young players and argu- ing out plays and decisions with old cronies. Baseball was good to Cochrane. In seventeen years of playing, after hav- ing taken a college course in business mil PDJtMTl. management, he has a large insurance trust fund, a block of fashionable real estate in Detroit, and a healthy salary. If an army moves on its stomach a ball club certainly moves around a ioo- game catcher. They have their fingers in practically every play. A daring, tough receiver is respected around a circuit. You can replace an outfielder or a pitcher should they twist an ankle or come up with a charley horse, but let a first string backstop of the Dickey-Ferrell-Danning- Hartnett type break a finger and watch a manager blow up. Most clubs before a game have a club- house meeting to discuss enemy batters. The whole squad is asked to make sug- FIRST in quality gestions on how to pitch to the invaders. The catchers usually sit back and try to remember what not to serve up to the FIRST in reputation heavy hitters. A catcher without a good memory is sure in a hopeless spot. Some even keep notebooks on the road. A man FIRST in popularity up for his first year in the big leagues is usually a mystery, unless some player has remembered his weakness from the among minors. There are some wallopers, like Ducky Medwick, who'll swing on any- thing and have no weakness. Some hitters U. S. BOTTLED IN BOND change their taste in mid-season and it's up to the catcher to remember that also. KENTUCKY STRAIGHT Pitchers have a lot of faith in their catchers and many a jittery hurler only BOURBON WHISKIES needs a few words from a wise backstop to cool down and thunder 'em across or twist a sweet curve, to rid himself of a 100 PROOF troublesome hitter. A windpad artist who knows all the tricks of the trade is a gift from the gods to any club. He must know how to toss away his mask and cap automatically to capture a soaring pop fly or foul; how to dig a fast "downer" out of the dirt when heaved by a low-ball pitcher, especially with men on the bases. Time is a mighty big factor and being hemmed in by a batter and the ump it takes grace as well as speed to heave the ball to catch a baserunner napping. The catcher has to know when to tell the infield to shift and he has to be able to dash out and scoop up a bunt and hurl the ball down to first without braining the runner. All that takes skill as well as energy. Of all the performers back of the plate in the big time none goes about his duties with less show or does a more perfect job than of the Yankees. "Sweet William" is one of those players that nobody knows. A first-rate backstop and a dangerous hitter, Dickey has no personal magnetism and is a good exam- ple of how an excellent mittman can go unnoticed. For nearly ten years he was forgotten by all but the pitchers. But COPYRIGHT 1940, NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CORPORATION. NEW Y who wouldn't (Continued on page 40)

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be unnoticed on a team with such stars as with the Giants a southpaw with the O'Farrell were looking after the catching Ruth, Gehrig, Lazzeri. DiMaggio and Athletics fractured it with a pitched ball. department. He was shipped to Bridge- Gordon. William did his part well and Bill knew the Yank pitchers had confi- port and had to spell off playing in the hence the catching department was over- dence in him and Manager McCarthy outfield and guarding the plate. looked until the Yanks ran roughshod needed him to bring home the bacon. Then McGraw resigned and Terry over the Cubs and the Reds in the last He had trouble holding a bat, but never took over the team and sent for Danning. two World Series waltzes. flinched. He suffered agony, for it was his When the good news reached him he was Dickey's chances of ever becoming a gloved hand that had to stop the bullets on third base ready to score. A Spring- catching great were mighty slim when he fired by Ruffing, Gomez, Hadley, Pear- field batter hit a screamer. Everyone saw reported to the Yanks. First ofT, he was son and Malone. it but Danning. It struck him in the jaw stricken down with pneumonia and it Dickey was always a favorite with the and broke it. Then came nine long days was feared he might wind up in bed. He lost eighteen at Saranac a victim of a lung pounds. When he could play condition. His long, lanky again they shipped him to build was against tradition, Winston-Salem, which soon for most catchers were sup- folded. Then he was sent over posed to have the build be- to High Point. tween an ice-wagon and a Danning felt sorry for the locomotive—Hartnett, Lom- rest of the team, for he had bardi, Phelps and Mancuso, the batter and the ump to talk not to forget the other great to, but the outfielders sure shadow makers of the Shanty were lonely at times, for no Hogan variety. This was back one ever came to see the team in 1028. Yet, "Sweet William" play. In 1933 he was with when he throws away his Buffalo, which was managed glove and mask and the rest by Ray Schalk, the old White of his over-stuffed covering, Sox catcher. He taught Harry will perhaps leave a catching how to scoop up low balls and record that will astound those all the other strange tricks a who love to dote on records. smart man with a mattress on Since 1020 he has caught his chest should know. In 1034 more than a hundred games a Terry again sent for him and season for the Yankees. Barring injury, late Colonel Jake Ruppert. Generous he sat on the bench mostly, getting in he will no doubt top 's Jake had heard Bill ask for a two thou- but two games. He fell into luck having record for he is but thirty-three and the sand raise and told him he'd have to be Frank Snyder, another great catcher and Cub manager is slowing up. Dickey satisfied with sixteen for the season. the club coach, as his roommate. Being a should have at least six more good Thinking it over, the quiet, smiling good listener, he picked up more knowl- seasons under his mask. He's a sure-fire Dickey said that if that was all the edge of the receiving end of the game. base hitter and an infallible defensive colonel thought he was worth he'd better Came 1937, and Gus Mancuso, now catcher. When Bill came to the Yankees take it, and signed the contract. Ruppert with Brooklyn, broke a finger. Terry they had three good catchers in Grabow- then out of goodness of heart took the leaned over into the dugout and motioned ski, Bengough and Collins. Grabowski contract, scratched out the sixteen and to the Horse to buckle on his mattress broke a finger ten days after the season wrote in $18,000, while the surprised and take over. Since that afternoon opened in 1929 and Dickey took his place Dickey gulped a couple of times. Danning has been the number one boy and has been in there ever since. Bill's a The New York Giants have in Harry behind the plate for the Giants. He blocks peaceful bloke and outside of the punch Danning a number one backstop that the home platter like a concrete wall and he let fly at Carl Reynolds in '32, break- can be rated with the best in baseball. is respected around the circuit. When a ing the jaw of the Senator outfielder, has Harry the Horse, as the black haired, kid in Los Angeles he had to catch if he confined his punching to base hits. hawk-nosed Californian is known to Polo wanted to play ball on the lots with the In 1934 Dickey and Gehrig became Ground addicts, plays the game with his bigger boys. At twenty-nine he insists he roommates. That went on until last body, heart and soul. He's a good hitter still hasn't mastered the art and it's his year, when Lou was forced to retire on and handles the twists of the low-ball hitting that has gotten him where he is account of his health. Bill was often the twirlers Hubbell, Schumacher and Gum- today. doctor when the great Iron Horse would bert with ease. It's not so hard to snare Many managers think it good psy- sink into a batting slump. Both love the tosses of a Dizzy Dean, Mungo or chology to have a two-ton catcher breath- fishing, and between pep talks and an- Melton, but to dig the ball out of the dirt ing on the necks of belligerent batters. gling Dickey was the perfect tonic to with men on base takes a special kind of In Gabby Hartnett the Cubs have for the bring the moody Gehrig out of it. Dickey catching engineering which Danning has past seventeen seasons had the perfect once thought he could pitch and did some worked out to perfection. backstop. Maybe there's something in hurling back in Little Rock when he Manager Bill Terry of the Giants has the Massachusetts air that breeds catch- started to take an interest in the game. always had confidence in Danning and ers; for like Perkins and Cochrane the Now and then he'll pitch the ball back at the Horse in the past two seasons has 220-pound Charles Leo Hartnett began a dopey pitcher with such speed that surprised his severest critics with his catching in the Bay State, at Millville. even the fans notice it. dash, skill and untiring efforts to win Discovered by a Cub scout he started

Dickey has what it takes in the games. Like Dickey, the strong armed, from New England in 1922 for the island pinches. He struggled through the 1936 ex-ice-delivery boy has had a long wait in of Catalina. Going three thousand miles World Series with a broken left hand. reaching the top with the Giants. When from home to play ball must have Six weeks before the classic meeting he first reported to McGraw Hogan and frightened the youth, for he was silent

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine from Chicago to the Wrigley isle in the Pacific. NED DAY It was then a sportswriter gave him the handle of Crabby. His quiescence annoyed World's Individual the writer. Bill Killifer, then managing Match Game the Cubs, was ready to ship him away, Bowling Champion when Doyle, the scout who discovered him, squawked that his find deserved a chance. Gabby caught an exhibition game at Los Angeles and was kept . . . yes, kept for eighteen seasons. He has toiled for the Cubs under six managers and now is winding up his career as the boss-man himself.

On the field he is a noisy go-getter, while off it a quiet, home loving citizen of Chicago. Gabby has a motherly way with pitchers and thinks Dizzy Dean is one of the game's greatest hurlers. Old

Diz will pay attention to Gabby 's signals and in a game against the Giants the great one pitched only 88 balls to hold the New Yorkers to five hits. Gabby caught the great Hubbell in the 1934 All- Star Game when the screwball expert struck out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx, Al Simmons and Joe Cronin in succession in two innings. In his first major league game and the first time he'd ever been in a major league park he was called upon to catch Grover Cleveland Alexander. Old Pete was beginning to fade then but the great master put his okay on Gabby's catching. It was Alex's praise to Killifer, who once had been his old battery mate, that put Gabby in solid with his boss. Under Managers Killifer, Maranville, Gibson, McCarthy and Grimm, Gabby has seen backstops come and go with the Cubs. Most of them didn't last because they could not hit. Good hitters have been turned into backstops, like Rudy Yoik of the Tigers. Gabby cleaved the breezes often when he was starting; today he is one of the most dangerous hitters in • • • perfect score baseball. His against the Pirates in for pipe or cigarette the ninth in 1938 equals any dramatic moment the game has ever produced. Right down the alley for mildness With the game about to be called for and aroma . . . that's Velvet! Its good darkness Gabby was in a spot. With two old Burley and maple flavor makes out, the score five to five, with a called strike and a swing against him he poled a 10-strike every time. You'll get a the ball into the left field bleachers to lot of "300" smokes from each sink the wavering Pittsburghers. That big red tin. win put the Cubs in front for the pennant. Fans poured from the stands and escorted the smiling giant across the plate. Hart- nett was one of the few who thought Dizzy Dean was far from through when the chewing gum king Wrigley purchased him from the Cards. Old Diz cost $185,000 and three players. They'll have to sell a lot of chewing gum to make up that amount and also what was spent for Vel medical surveys to learn whether or not Diz's wing was ready for pitching or soup. Gabby encouraged Old Diz and the talkative hurler himself admits that it was his foolhardy mistake of ignoring Hartnett's signal that caused him to be M/LD and COOL jyright 1940. Z' struck on the toe in the 1937 All-Star ett & Myers V Pos/tfve/y MO "B/rE" game. Gabby's (Continued on page 42)

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most dreadful moments came in the 'ag lineup if he had a tough monicker. Robby some Russian, a little Japanese, Hebrew series. It was the fourth game against the still holds the record of making seven hits and Sanskrit. He started out as a short- Athletics. The Cubs were out in front 8 in seven times . This happened stop at Princeton, was a third baseman to o, in the seventh. Simmons, the first when he was with the with Brooklyn in 1923. In '26 he was up, hit a homer and then the slaughter in '92. He hit six singles and a double in with the White Sox and couldn't make- started. Connie's artillery batted all the seven times up against St. Louis. He was up his mind to be a lawyer or a ball- way round and then some, winning the the first catcher to bring such innovations player. A Columbia professor helped him game 10 to 8. Joe McCarthy was as modern equipment, stance and back- decide on baseball as a career. After two stumped on just what to do to halt the stop plays to the game, outside of Bresna- White Sox catchers suffered split thumbs, bombardment. han, who introduced shinguards in 1908. he asked Ray Schalk for a chance at

( iabby once tried to play first base and One of the surest ways for a twirler to catching. Schalk gave him his chance, aU but caused a riot in trying to field a blow up is to get angry, then bang goes doubting the wisdom of it all. roller. He, the pitcher and the batter all his control. The experienced catcher Moe thinks pitchers can help catchers got entangled and when they got up and never lets a hurler worry for a minute and he thanks Lyons, Faber and Thomas dusted themselves off Manager Killifer about cracking or weakening in the for many a helpful hint when he started. decided that behind the plate was the tight spots. A smart backstop will never It's a fifty-fifty partnership as far as he's only safe place for the energetic Hartnett. let his pitcher argue with an ump over a concerned. He went from Chicago to Hartnett has a way with players and lets decision. He does all the battling at the Cleveland and then with Washington. In them sleep on their mistakes, taking them plate. Dickey tells of how nervous Lefty '35 he joined the Red Sox to be with his up the next day at the meeting before the Gomez gets and when his hand shakes old pal Joe Cronin. He took up the Japa- next game. Jumpin' down a feller's throat Sweet William just hands the Senor the nese language while on his way to Nippon right after he's booted one is no way to ball and knows everything is going to be in '32 to coach the catchers of Japanese win cooperation, is his motto. He can okay, for the more Lefty shakes the colleges. Purchasing three grammars, he break up hit-and-run plays and steals by better his control. studied the fundamentals and alphabet. calling for pitch-outs and pitchers never Catchers are usually the best story He surprised some Japanese students once question his strategy. Hartnett used to tellers. They seem to get into more argu- when he autographed a ball for them in tangle with the umps, but now wiJJ not ments and are the best "jockeys" in the their own language. beef unless he thinks a decision rates it. game. A few words from a masked man You see experienced catchers warming Jn fact the umps like him for his fairness. and the fellow who can't take it is ready up the pitchers, should the going get He has one of the most powerful arms in to crown him with a bat. Who hasn't rough. On the coaching lines you find the game. heard of Moe Berg, catcher and coach them acting as the traffic cops. Invaluable Of all the catcher-managers the inimi- with the Red Sox. It sometimes annoys are the old backstops. They watch for table Wilbert Robinson, known to base- the "Prof" when people think he wears every little opening, weakness, and the ball as "Uncle Robby" was perhaps the his education on his sleeve. He plays ball chance to put one over on the opponents. most unique and beloved. Besides being because he loves the game and it provides The catcher will always be the watch- a great catcher, Robby had the knack of for him a chance to travel and study. dog of the game. As you sit in the stands taking men out of the baseball boneyard A graduate of Princeton, Columbia and his back may be toward you, and the and making winners of them. He led his of the Sorbonne at the University of ump standing between, but don't forget Robins to two pennants. His hardest task Paris, his hobby is languages. Moe can the mattress man is there with his hand was remembering and pronouncing names. make himself understood in English, in his big glove ordering a pitch out, a Often a good player was left out of the French, Greek, Italian, Spanish, German, curve or a fast one right down the alley

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Well could we multiply our opportuni- of their lives; nine million orphans; five on the commons after school hours. ties of education and culture, through million widows. Preserve for them the opportunity for additional, better and larger institutions In view of these startling facts, who developing model airplanes and other of learning. could wish for our participation in an- happy pursuits. Well could we afford, not one, but other World War? Then, and then alone, need we never several airports in every large city. Certainly, it could not be the mothers fear for men and women of character Well could we rid ourselves of the in- with babes in their arms—nor the fathers, to carry on. adequate highways, narrow streets and wrinkled and withered with age. Cer- Let us realize a few more pertinent the constant congestion in every city— tainly, it could not be the middle-aged facts that have been forgotten or smoth- large or small. men and women with their vivid memo- ered by insidious propaganda, from those Well could be multiply our airways, ries of 1914 to 1918. No, but it can be people in the old world and their agents expediting the transportation of mail, the lack of knowledge and understanding in our land. There is no difference in the people, and merchandise to and from on the part of our youth, coupled with lack of reason for the war of today in the every hamlet in this country. the selfishness and greed of a few. old world, than that which caused wars of Well may we remember the forgotten Let us not permit our boys and girls past centuries. statistics of the World War. to be regimented into uniforms, carrying The same selfish reasons of greed and Seventy-four million men mobilized; wooden guns, almost from the time they hate are responsible for the present ten million killed; three million maimed; leave the cradle, but preserve for them catastrophe. These same reasons—selfish- nineteen million wounded; ten million the game of marbles on the street corner. ness, hate and greed—can well be respon- disabled or incapacitated for the balance Preserve for them the baseball game sible for our being involved again, in a

The AMERICAN LEGION' Magazine war of destruction of property and man- kind.

Certainly I feel no ill will toward the people of any of the belligerent countries, and my heart bleeds with sympathy for all of them. But this can be no justifica- tion to me for our involvement again, with its horrible consequences of the probable loss of millions of our young men and billions of our wealth. In view of my record during the World War, such a statement may well be questioned.

But it was the very nature of my ex- periences that has brought to me the realization that American soldiers and billions of American dollars have no place on foreign soil. However, should this country ever be threatened with in- vasion by a foreign nation, or nations, I shall gladly offer my services, my two sons, and any worldly goods I may pos- sess, to protect and guard our institutions. It must further be remembered that,

if this nation becomes involved in the present European conflict, we should go

into it with the full understanding that to be of any benefit it will mean keeping a standing army in the old world for the We want you to next hundred years, as a military police force, to prevent a repetition of the 1014- 1018 war and the present one. I am convinced, with this further feel at understanding, that the people of the home United States would never consent to such an additional penalty for their par- ticipation. wherever good beer is sold I am not a pacifist in any sense of the word. I believe in preparedness to insure against foreign invasion, by having, The brewing industry wants every place primarily, a peacetime aviation industry, where beer is sold to be as clean and developed through peacetime service, wholesome as beer itself. ONE MILLION that will give us an adequate military DOLLARS aviation reserve, for defensive purposes Out of a quarter of a million retail estab- EVERY 24 HOURS only. lishments selling beer, however, there are

. . . more than 400 million dollars Regardless of who proves to be the bound to be a few "black sheep" retailers a year in taxes ... to help pay the costs victor in the present war overseas—re- who disobey the law or permit anti-social of government. member always, both victor and van- conditions. For your protection . . . and If there were no beer to pay these quished will have completed their eco- also taxes, who to protect our own business . . . we would pay them ? nomic ruin for years to come. Conse- want those places cleaned up or closed up. quently, we need never fear an early And we're doing something about it! attack on our shores. In the meantime, it behooves the United States to establish The brewing industry has a program to her home defense. keep beer's surroundings wholesome. With a strong Navy and an air force of This program cooperates with law enforce- fifty thousand pilots, and one hundred ment agencies. It has been remarkably thousand planes, no foreign govern- successful . . . and is being extended as ment dare even think in terms of war rapidly as possible. SYMBOL OF good taste, against us, and if they should be so good manners, good com- pany. Good beer is a mild, foolish, our people need have no fear of wholesome beverage asso- invasion. ciated with friendliness and With the moral fabric of the people of good manners. the old world having collapsed, there can be only one result from this present con- HOW BEER flict at its conclusion—no matter who CHANGED THE COURSE AN AMERICAN SOCIAL wins. OF AMERICAN HISTORY IN 1620. CONTRIBUTION. You'll

With millions of the flower of their Did you know that the Pilgrims in the May- want to know about it. Send lands having been blown to bits or flower landed at Plymouth Rock instead of for FREE booklet. wrecked for life; with billions of dollars Virginia because their provisions were nearly Address: United Brewers In- worth of their property having been de- exhausted, especially their beer? This is told dustrial Foundation, Dept. Dll, stroyed, revolution and revolution alone in an old Pilgrim manuscript. 21 East 40th St., New York. will follow. Wars are the stamping grounds for BEER ... A BEVERAGE OF MODERATION FOR THE NATION revolutions, and (Continued on page 44) "u 10° JUNE. 1940 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — — ——

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revolutions are the stamping grounds nerves?" as compared with the war of seeing their men—the flower of youth of communism. Let us guard against 1914-1918. It must be remembered that torn from their bosoms—never expecting that happening here. With the vast im- for years prior to 1014 both sides knew to see them again. provement in destructive weapons, men, whose side who was on, with very few May I implore them to remember those women, and children are being, and will exceptions. In other words, both sides deadly days of 1916, 191 7 and 1918? be, destroyed ten times as fast as during had their duplicate ducks in a row. That Here, too, we have a great asset—an the World War. We, in America, in was not true in September, 1939, and it emotional asset —of untold value that view of these prospects, may well recog- must help to keep us out of this war. nize that our frontiers lie in the western To you leaders of finance and industry, hemisphere. well may you remember that this Let us develop our social, political and country's national debt was only one commercial intercourse between our billion dollars at the start of the World neighbors of the twenty-one republics to War, and well may you remember that the south of us, for the best interest of all today we have a national debt of approxi- concerned. mately fifty billions of dollars. Let us guard against our economic The war of 1914-1918 cost this nation structure being keyed up through prom- forty-seven billions of dollars, and due to ises of false prosperity. the improved deadliness of methods and weapons since the world war, the rapidity TET us recognize that selfishness, greed of destruction of both mankind and

-I—t and hate might well develop an property will be many times greater unsound economic structure—the col- meaning that should this nation be forced lapse of which no democracy can survive. into this war it would cost us another Let those who profit through the de- hundred billions of dollars. velopment of such unsound economic structures, and at the expense of other THIS will leave us with a national debt of people's misery and mistakes—be they "The next time I buy you a ham- one hundred and fifty billion dollars capitalists, politicians, or wage-earners mock, I'll check up on the trees when peace is declared, all of which means bear in mind, that they are in a minority. around here!" the dollar will be worth very little and the Let us maintain a sense of balance, in clothes on your back may be your only thought and activity, even though it may assets. mean for the moment, less in worldly is not true today, but it probably will be Particularly will this be true in view of belongings. soon. The war may well see mankind and the fact that all the belligerents were Or, even, let us keep in mind that we property destroyed on a scale unknown financially stable at the start of the World can well afford, through the maintenance in history. War, whereas by comparison they are of our absolute neutrality, to suffer even For years past the totalitarian states bankrupt today. the consequences of lowering our stand- have thought only in terms of building up Bear in mind when peace is declared ard of living, for a short period of time, their military and economic reserves to (and that day is as sure as death and to prevent happening here what is hap- be prepared for the day. taxes ), with forty to fifty millions of men pening in the old world. This is evidenced by the fact that all being thrown back into productive effort, Let us realize that the obligation of our belligerents are limiting their purchases and their countries' treasuries and pan- leadership, be it capitalistic, political, or throughout the world to a degree that tries being empty, men will become serfs social, rests heavily on our shoulders in makes them insignificant by comparison and slaves for the sake of three meals a these trying times. with the squandering of billions during day, and a place to rest their weary We, who live in the land of abundance 1914-1916 for military supplies. bodies at night. and liberty, should be willing, through How fortunate are we that this is true, This will mean one simple fact —that peacetime service and accomplishment, for it has prevented the mushrooming of their ability to produce commodities and to maintain these liberties and indepen- our industries and commerce on a foun- products for export at prices so low, it dence—to prevent bankruptcy and star- dation of stilts and sand. will eliminate the possibility of this vation here. Blessed are we that this nation still has nation having even a semblance of our Today this country stands united with most of the generation of industrialists, present export trade left. few exceptions on the major issue that is financial and business men living and in It will bring about a depression in this before us, namely business, who suffered the penalty of country that will jar our teeth loose and greed and selfishness during the early make the depression of 1929 to date, a Keep us out of this war days of the last war. mimic affair by comparison. They have not forgotten the price they Who dare say with a debt of one hun-

Our true obligation is not only the paid during 1920-192 1, and particularly dred and fifty billion dollars that the destiny of our own children, but all the from \()2ij to date for that greed and youth of this nation will accept such children of America, who will be set back selfishness. obligations in the future for the mistakes a hundred years in their opportunities, as This fact, I implore the leaders of this of the past? well as the growth of American life, if we nation —financial, industrial and com- in llation, and inflation alone, will fol- participate in this war in Europe. mercial, as well as political —to well low as it did in Germany during those And, we of the general public, have a remember. It is the most practical asset disastrous years from 1921 to 1026. right to call upon our statesmen—regard- we have in keeping out of this war. We have heard some of our experts less of parly or creed — to hold this Fortunate are we to have most of that in spite of the facts — still belittle the country resolute to the one great issue, generation of mothers, wives, sweet- deadliness and the possibilities of avia- of keeping us out of this war. hearts and sisters still with us who suf- tion in war time. The facts should make Some ask, "Why this war of words and fered the heartaches and headaches of all of us cringe with horror, even though

The AMERICAN LEGION Ma S azine 45 this new weapon of destruction has only defenses, that so many of those trying few hundred during the World War, and been experimented with to date. have reached their objectives. three to four times as deadly and effective Realize, that, in spite of the Polish W ith waves of one hundred to two — with hundreds of thousands of anti- air foice, which was considered relatively hundred bombers protected by high aircraft guns by comparison with a few good, the superior air force of Germany speed pursuit planes attacking their ob- hundred and many times more accurate was able to ruin it within forty-eight jectives every hour of the day and night, than those used during the World War, hours after hostilities started in the the carnage and destruction will be the mortality rate in aerial warfare will undeclared war. horrible. be terrific. Wave after wave of German bombers With high explosive bombs, incendiary And in my opinion, within ninety days destroyed airdromes, hangars and re- bombs and gas bombs being dropped on after warfare in the air truly starts, the serves, and blotted out the eyes of their those large centers by the hundreds of reserve of planes and pilots on both sides army in the trenches. Then it was a thousands, those cities may well be will be exhausted, meaning that the simple matter for the Germans to cut the destroyed and burnt up. belligerents, whose productive capacity arteries of supplies and communications With the destruction of the water of planes and, primarily, of pilots is the behind the armies at the front by destroy- system of large cities, the heat, light, best, eventually will be the victor. ing highways, railroads and bridges, power, gas, and sewerage systems, But, in the meantime, they will revert shutting off reserve troops—ammunition, disease and pestilence will cause plagues to the trench and dugout warfare result- food and medical supplies for those at the beyond our imagination. ing in a war of attrition. front. Warsaw and many other cities have With thousands of planes and pilots So I say to you, no matter what the been ruined for years to come. on both sides by comparison with a price may be that this nation has to pay

Witness what has happened to that to stay out of this war, it can never be too gallant little nation of Finland by those big, because no matter how large it may hordes of Russian eagles. Cities were be, in economic, social and political wel- wiped out for all time to come and today, fare, to say nothing of our so-called what was a little land of happy people is national honor, it would be only an a nation of misery. infinitesimal part of the price we would When war in the air is started in reality have to pay if we should participate. between the major belligerents, I doubt In closing, may I utter this fervent whether you and I, who have seen Paris, prayer?— that this generation, in its Berlin, London and many other centers of wisdom and mature consideration of this interest and culture in the old world, will question of absolute neutrality, will pre- be able to recognize them the next time vent posterity or future generations, from we see them. condemning or indicting us, as having The startling fact is, that even though legalized wholesale slaughter, murdered this new weapon has been used only "He won't tell anyone how- the flower of our youth, and massacred experimentally as a feeler of each other's he does it!" democracy.

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umpire's tent leaped to the ground. "I "Colonel, it's not infantry, but artil- am General Heidekooper," he shouted. lery. I can see the guns!" "I'm not captured!" Colonel Tiffany ran to high ground "I am Colonel Tiffany," said that and turned his field glasses on the road. officer, bowing. "Commanding the First "Artillery it is!" he exulted. "The in- Separate Squadron, Ninety-Fourth Cav- fantry has gone by! And now come the alry. I am afraid you are captured, artillery/Through to the guns!' A cavalry- general." man's dream! We'll shoot that outfit up "Cavalry? You couldn't possibly be 'til it looks like a skimmer!" here so soon. Spent the night here; came Lieutenant Dunphy stood mute. out before the maneuver started, eh? I'm "What are you looking like a sick cat too old a hawk to be caught with that about?" barked Colonel Tiffany. bird seed!" "Sir, General Heidekooper has de- manded an umpire. If the umpire rules NO, GENERAL!" Colonel Tiffany's us out, and sends us back to camp, then voice shook with exultation. we won't be able to attack the artillery." "But here you are, you see!" "Why should the umpire rule us out? General Heidekooper took off his hat We captured the general fair and square! and dashed it to the ground in rage. He had left the umpire tent and was on "I am not captured," said he. "We the road. He was captured before umpires, McGonigal said him." .n overheated radiator is a danger have you know, to decide anything about these things. I was trying to find an "Sir," insisted Lieutenant Dunphy, sign. Power is being wasted. You may um- pire for a decision when these men "this is not war, but a maneuver. When l>e headed for expensive repairs. Keep it is over, Heidekooper will radiators clean. Use Sani-Flush twice grabbed me." General again In the hush rose McGonigal's voice. be the umpire's superior." a year. (Directions on can.) I the umpire will rule You'll find Sani-Flush in most bath- "Oh, see. That cord means he's a "You mean as general. It ain't yellow, it's gold. Heidekooper wants rooms for cleaning toilet bowls. It They him to?" look the to me. One's wire an' one's "I would if it were me, sir, the cannot injure motor or fittings. It same and silk, huh? Well, I don't know yet to Regular had captured you." cleans out rust, sludge, scale and sedi- how Army tell a cavalryman from a general, then." Colonel Tiffany fired a clip of curses. ment. Keeps water circulating freely. General Heidekooper turned to where "Well, what do suggest, Do the job yourself for 10c (25c for you Dunphy?" McGonigal questioned a corporal. "Sir, we release General Heidekooper. the largest truck or tractor). If you "The reporter!" he cried. "So you told Then we can capture the artillery. prefer, get your service station to do A these men where I was!" regiment of artillery is worth a general it for you—insist on Sani-Flush. Sold "I never did!" cried McGonigal. "I any day." by grocery, drug, hardware, and 5-and- said you were a cavalryman!" "But we haven't got anything against 10c stores. 10c and 25c sizes. The "Colonel Tiffany!" snapped the gen- the artillery, and we have against Heide- Hygienic Products Co., Canton, Ohio. eral. "I'm going to have you ruled off the kooper. The artillery never said we had battlefield!" no place on the battlefield." "Sir?" gasped Colonel Tiffany. "Why "Chase McGonigal in with the story Sam-Flush off the battlefield?" we captured General Heidekooper. It

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A corporal who had been on the run- "But suppose he denies it afterward?" ning board stepped forward. The cor- Lieutenant Dunphy slowly congealed, Better Built — Lower Prices Canoes. Rowboats, Outboard poral spoke with an Oxford University like a hunting dog pointing a bird. Motor Boats. Olympic, Snipe, to militia still Comet am] Sea Gull Sail Boats accent, common regiments of "There's the general's hat on the CATALOG FREE ive Money— Prompt Shipment—Two horse, who recruit heavily from local ground!" he husked. "Let's swap the cord Factories. THOMPSON BROS. BOAT MFG. CO. <8i> institutions of learning. "Corporal Lenox, for one of ours. The general will put the

216 Ann St. , Write 10 \ 116 Elm St. PESHTIGO, WIS. Wither vl"c) CORTLAND, N. Y. B Troop," said he, saluting. "I was com- hat on his head and never notice the dif- manding the security detachment on the ference. Then we'll have his gold hat Tacey School road. We saw the general's cord as evidence we captured him." car coming and ran our horses across the Quickly Colonel Tiffany made his BACKACHE? road before and behind it. The general decision. "Keep that artillery under Try Flushing Excess Poisons admitted his identity. He didn't say he observation," he ordered. "I'll release And Acid Thru Kidneys was looking for an umpire. He said he Heidekooper!" Getting Nights And Stop Up was looking for a representative of the 35 CENTS PROVES IT press that had just been run away with." THE open-mouthed McGonigal had The general waved his hand. "Nuts!" followed. Colonel Tiffany seized his kidneys are overtaxed and When your said he with fierceness. "You heard what arm and led him aside. your bladder is irritated and passage scan- ty and often smarts and burns, you may I said, Colonel! Get me an umpire!" He "McGonigal," whispered the colonel, Capsules, need Gold Medal Haarlem Oil a climbed back into his limousine. "your fame is made! You get your horse fine harmless stimulant and diuretic that L lips scatter of here to telephone. starts to work at once and cos s but 35 Lieutenant Dunphy, trembling and out a cents at any modern drugstore. with excitement, saluted violently, like a Phone your press bureau that the militia to put more It's one pood safe way man working a pump handle. cavalry captured a Regular Army gen- healthy activity into kidneys and bladder —you should sleep more soundly the whole "Sir!" he panted. "There is a truck eral in the first hour of the maneuver. get niirht through. But be sure to GOLD column coming down the road!" Have them put it on the wires as a MEDAL—it's a genuine medicine for weak "A truck column? Oh, the 'Hash,' then you go back to Plattsburg kidneys—right from Haarlem in Holland. God! Not Don't accept a substitute. infantry?" and write the story!"

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine W'HTN ANSWERING Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine 47 "Okay!" McGonigal gave a military salute, banged his heels, and ran limp- ingly toward the woods where he had left his horse. "Well," exulted the colonel, "at least I've beaten Heidekooper to the com- munique!" Colonel Tiffany then began to walk slowly away, but yet in a diagonal fashion that would lead him toward the campaign hat, one edge of which

could still be seen above the grass in the pasture. But as the colonel neared the hat, General Heidekooper got down from his limousine and began to walk medita- tively in the same direction. Colonel Tiffany increased his sideways pace so that he looked somewhat like an irritated crab. The general slightly increased his, as does an old trotter hearing another horse coming up behind. As a race be- tween a general and a colonel for the general's hat could not help but result in prejudice to good order and military discipline, the colonel quit, so that by the time he reached the hat the general had already recovered it, and stuck it on the back of his head. "General," began Colonel Tiffany, "we have decided to release you without waiting for the umpire. This is a maneuver, not war. Its purpose is to train the men, and the whole scheme would be ruined if we were to eliminate the commander of one side before the thing got really started." How can a man leave his "That's fine!" grunted General Heide- kooper. "I didn't think a cavalryman life insurance money to best fit the could estimate the situation so well. Since you're so sporting, I'll give you particular needs of his beneficiary? fifteen minutes to get out before I set the dogs on you." Often life insurance money may best be rate of interest, which is paid to the The general turned upon his heel, left as a single lump sum. But in many beneficiary each year. Arrangements may climbed into his limousine and went cases, such as Dick Gay's, this kind of set- be made for withdrawal of principal rumbling away. the tlement raises difficult financial problems sum, if desired. "Well," murmured Colonel Tiffany, for the beneficiary. For that reason, under May any of these methods in "he's not such a bad old dogface after Q: be used Prudential Ordinary policies, the insured combination'' all." Then he whistled for Lieutenant may select from 4 different methods of set- A: Yes. For example, here's how Dick Gay Dunphy. tlement, or leave the choice to bis beneficiary. and the Prudential man arranged for the "Come, Dunphy, let's get out of here. life insurance money to be paid if Dick To horse! Old Heidekooper got to his hat Q: What are the 4 methods of settlement should die tomorrow: first so we'll have to forego his capture. The Prudential offers? First, $2,000 will be paid at once to But we've got to scatter into the woods A: First, the insurance money may be paid Mary for immediate expenses. before he sics his reserve on us." in cash in one lump sum, leaving the Second, Mary will receive $150 a "But McGonigal has already gone off beneficiary free to use it in any way. month until young Jim reaches age 18. with the story about it, Colonel." Second, a definite monthly income can Colonel Tiffany spun about like a Third, at that time, Mary will receive be set up for the beneficiary's entire life. top. "Corporal Lenox!" he roared. an extra $100 a month during Jim's Thus, the beneficiary is assured a guar- "Mount up your squad and follow that four college years. anteed income as long as she lives and reporter. Tell him on no account is he to And Fourth, the balance will be paid is not faced with the problem of han- telephone that story!" as a monthly income for the rest of dling a large sum. Since the corporal and his men had Mary's life. Third, a definite income for a definite left their horses in the road while they period may be arranged, to be paid rode in on the general's running board, it Th is is only one example of how the 4 Op- monthly or less frequently, as desired. took some time for them to run back up tional Methods of Settlement in Prudential the hill to get them. Fourth, the insurance money may be left Ordinary policies help a man plan intelli- Meanwhile McGonigal, having reached with The Prudential at a guaranteed gently for the future. the highway, looked up and down the road with despairing glance in search of some building that might have a tele- INSURANCE COMPANY phone. But the Herring River Valley is The Prudential one of vast spaces of underprivileged HOME OFFICE: NEWARK, IN. J. OF AMERICA farms, unable to afford the convenience of a telephone. {Continued on page 48)

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{Continued from page 4j) COME VISIT The hot sun beat down, McGonigal The soldiers sighed. They were men of WHERE EARLIEST perspired. He removed his coat and war, professional fighters, but motorized, strapped it to the saddle, then set and unused to trudging long miles on HEROES TROD! resolutely out to find communication foot over mountains. The roughest one with the press bureau. Peering beneath spoke sideways to McGonigal. the branches of a tiny glade he saw a "You son!" said the rough soldier. Massachusetts, land of America's small car of that type known as station "You ain't no civilian; you're a spy. You earliest heroes, invites today's pa- wagon. On its lowered side was a row of said it was the general comin'. If we'd triots, members of the American telephones. McGonigal chirped happily Legion and families, to visit in this to his horse and rode in. In the station wagon a handsome officer state and enjoy its unduplicated stuck pins in a map. McGonigal slid facilities for recreation and rest. from the saddle, tied his horse to a tree Here one may golf, swim, fish, and ran to the wagon. A soldier in blue boat, thrill to mountain scenery, overalls sat before a telephone switch- stay at gala hotels or modest tour- board and took messages handed to him ist camps, and do all this amid a by the handsome officer. In the under- hospitable atmosphere that fairly brush, other men in overalls were busy stringing wire. teems with memories of this coun- "How's chances on borryin' a phone?" try's glorious be- (f-. asked McGonigal. ginning. And — an "This is the command car o' the Third important item — Field Artillery," snarled the man in one may have a overalls. "We ain't puttin' out phones wonderful holiday to civilians." here at extremely "I'm press," smiled McGonigal. moderate prices. "Sorry, Jack. These is tactical phones. We got orders to keep 'em private." "See, Sam, that's what I mean by Down the road by which he had en- WRITI FOR THIS HANDSOME BOOKLET government competing with pri- tered, McGonigal perceived a man in a vate business!" Piny where America was bom- yellow hat-cord. in imssuiiusi i is "Now," he exulted, "here comes the general. He'll get to let use a known it was cavalry, we'd come in here MASSACHUSETTS DEVELOPMENT AND INDUSTRIAL yuh me COMMISSION. Slate House, Boston, Mass., Dept. L-l phone! He's kind to reporters!" an' made a fight out of it!" Please send me, free, [he above illustrated Eight men on horseback with drawn "Wha'd yuh mean spy?" protested booklet which gives complete details about vacationing in Massachusetts. pistols swept darkly round the station McGonigal. "What makes yuh think I Check here for specific information about Cape Cod, North Shore, Berkshires, wagon. care anything about this?" Historic Boston, lj South Shore, Pioneer "No," said McGonigal, "I guess I "I heard yuh! You said, 'Here comes Valley, All New England. Name made a mistake. These guys are cavalry." the general!' I've half a mind to kick the The cavalrymen were commanded by livin' guts outta yuh!" Street . McGonigal reply City. . . State Corporal Lenox of the accent. moved without to- "Captured, you know, by Jove!" he ward his horse, but one of the surly artil- exulted. "I say, what luck! First a general lerymen in blue laid his hand on the Pile Sufferers! captured, then a command car!" He bridle. swung from his horse, drew a pair of "This is a cavalry horse," said the Attention wire cutters from his belt and neatly artilleryman. "I capture it." The McCleary Clinic, C666 Elms severed the wires running from the "It's mine," said McGonigal. "They Blvd., Excelsior Springs, Mo., is putting switchboard. Then he climbed to the loaned it to me. I got to find a telephone." out an up-to-the-minute book on Piles seat of the station wagon and made mo- "So have I," said the artilleryman. (hemorrhoids) and related ailments. tions as if to drive it away. With that he mounted and untying the You can have a copy of this book by "Hey," protested the handsome officer halter, rode away after the station asking for it on a postcard sent to the above address. No charge. It may save faintly, "you can't do that. That wagon wagon. !" you much suffering and money. Write has got all our maps and stuff in it Deep in the woods the cavalry shel- today for a free copy. "That's what one would call quite too tered throughout the day, small parties tough tamale, sir," replied the corporal. darting forth to halt enemy motor trans- His eyes fell upon McGonigal. "As for port, deflate tires, then dash back again you, the colonel directs that you are not while the traffic jam on the Boston Road to write one ruddy word of what's hap- grew longer and thicker. Then night fell, pening." the squadron assembled, and moved Corporal Lenox spun the car and direct- stealthily to the attack of the artillery START ed it to the highway. His squad fol- regiment, whose location had been be- lowed him at a gallop. The artillery in trayed when the Oxford corporal had $1260 to $2100 Year blue overalls looked to their officer for captured its command post station wagon. Ex-Service Men get preference. FRANKLIN INSTITUTE instructions. The squadron advanced, dismounted, // Dept. E- 1 80, Rochester, N. Y. II42S Veteran* / "The milishy have captured the com- through the dark forest. Among the trees, appointed 1939 > Sirs: Itnsh to me without cbavEe Fiscal Year 3° il) 32-page bnok Willi list (if many mand car," said the officer. "They'll run the attackers suddenly stumbled against Thousands >b r. s. Government Big Pay .lobs. every year cP (2) Tell me about Veteran preference it off into the woods a few miles and trucks. Mail cou ' '' U "''' y f01 ' ol these jobs. abandon it. You might as well start now "Who the dash yuh walkin' on?" de- pon today / "Sniar sure. ." / Address In look for il manded sleepy voices.

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"Hey! Cheese it! The cavalry!" "Go back to sleep, yuh been eatin' indigestibles!" "Seagram's Crowns Prrrrt! The popping fire of machine- gun blanks, as distinguishable from the ripping bark of ball ammunition as a child's treble from a man's deep shouts. are Mellowei "Contact!" exulted Colonel Tiffany. "Listen for the main attack on the other Hank! Dismounted, you see, we could get SAYS right up to their guns before they could LARRY MACPHAIL hear us!" President, Brooklyn Pop-pop-pop! More fire. Heavier now. — Dodgers Then shouts. The thunder of a salvo of field guns. "Bang away!" chuckled Colonel Tif- fany. "It's too late now!" J£impc 76z£^P/6at/ popular Strange feet could be heard tramping through the underbrush. Colonel Tiffany and successful president of and his staff laid hands on their pistols. the Brooklyn Dodgers, com- "That's him!" came McGonigal's pared Seagram's Crowns of clear voice. "I can tell his voice, General." today with the Crowns of Another voice spoke up, more officially, 1934. He said : "Your present more harshly. "This is General Heide- Crowns are even smoother kooper. God, I've found you at last!" By and mellower than the famous Someone with a flashlight turned it on. Crowns of 1934". . . the iden- It showed General Heidekooper sur- tical whiskies which became rounded by umpires in white hats, with America's largest sellers McGonigal beside him. shortly after "McGonigal!" cried Colonel Tiffany. Repeal. "Where have you been all day?" "Tryin' to find my horse. An artillery- man captured him on me. My coat was on the saddle an' everything." "Well, what did you come in here for? We haven't got your horse." $1$Gnum sports col- "There was a guy come runnin' outta umnist, compared Seagram's the woods an' said the cavalry had cap- 5 Crown of 1934 with the 5 tured the artillery trucks, so I come in to Crown of today. His opinion ask for a ride home in one." "We heard the firing," grated General "The whiskey you made in Heidekooper, "and rightly assumed that '34 was mild and smooth... it was the cavalry in here illegally raising but your present 5 Crown is hell. Go home. You're ruled off the battle- even superior." field." "It takes an umpire to say that, $Cl£/}/Al star of "Du- general," protested Colonel Tiffany. Barry Was a Lady", tried "I have had three go with me the en- today's Seagram's 7 Crown tire afternoon, waiting for just such an first . . . and then tasted the 7 as this. Gentlemen, am I opportunity Crown of 1934. He said: right?" "Your 7 Crown of '34 tasted "You're ruled out!" said the umpires fine, but the present 7 Crown in chorus. "Go home to bivouac." is certainly smoother." "And to think, General, that I had you captured this afternoon and let you go," protested Colonel Tiffany. "You let me go because you stole my hat cord!" raged the general. "I dropped my hat on the ground and someone souvenired the cord. You think I don't know cavalrymen? Where is it?" "But General—" "Don't but me! You could see very well when I put on my hat it had no cord CROWN BLENDED WHISKIES on it. None of the clucks I have about me dared bring it to my attention. It was on

the hat when I started the maneuver, I

know very well, because I put it there myself. Fifteen dollars gone for a damned piece of brass wire just to wear to this cock-eyed sham battle that you want to turn into a horse show. Where is my hat Seagram's 7 Crown Blended Whiskey. 60% grain neutral spirits. 90 Proof. cord?" Seagram's 5 Crown Blended Whiskey. 72Vi% grain neutral spirits. 90 Proof. Seagram-Distillers Corporation, Executive Offices: New York, N. Y. "How can {Continued on page jo)

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- ' I tell you, if I don't know, General? "No," said the colonel sadly, "we'll "Well, you'll reply by indorsement have to return it." hereon before you're very much older!" Maneuvers always end with a grand General Heidekooper turned and led his council and discussion called a "critique." guard of umpires away. So ended this one on the day after the Colonel Tiffany turned to McGonigal. cavalry had been ruled out, and the "Did you get that story on the wire about other troops left to fight their modern the general being captured?" he de- war unhampered. The director of the 2 Outfits in ONE manded. maneuver had assembled the officers of One for Action "No. That corporal there that sounds both sides, Regulars and National Guard, One jor Leisure like a comic said not to." in a baseball park to hear "about the didn't you come back?" war and what they fought each other Il'sa MatchedShirt- "Why and- Slack Ensemble for." In an obscure corner of the grand- with an EXTRA OW could I? You run off an' hid in stand sat Colonel Tiffany and his officers. shirt in a blend- ing heathertone! H* the woods. The artillery thought I The last speaker was coming before the was a spy an' were gonna work out on me. amplifier, and there had as yet been no With 1 long-sleeved end 1 ebort-eleeved Gee. First I was all covered with blisters mention of the cavalry.

ebirt . . . *C*9S from sittin' down, then I was all covered "No story in the paper," groaned

With 2 abort-sleeved with blisters from walkin'. Maybe you Colonel Tiffany. "No recognition from

shirts . . . * J95 don't think I seen some country huntin' the High Command. I've told every #Res. App. For that horse, Colonel." officer in the maneuver we captured "Where's the horse now?" demanded General Heidekooper and let him go, and Please send the following THREE-SEMBLES the colonel. "Don't tell me you've lost a they won't believe it." CAMEL BLUE GREEN LUGGAGE horse for us, in addition!" "Every officer in the maneuvers knows I'Klc [: MY WAIS'I inches "Naw. The artillery give him back to General Heidekooper's opinion of the QUANTITY MY CHEST inches me. An' I says I'm lost. So they says, value of cavalry," said Lieutenant CHECK ENCLOSED 'Give him his head an' he'll take you back Dunphy. "They think we're envious be- to the squadron.' So I give him his head cause the general stole the show here with ADDRESS- an' he took me clear to Booneville. The his condemned river-crossing." CITY M. P.'s pinched me for bein' a civilian "Yes. That's all any of the speakers an' ridin' a cavalry horse. So when they have talked about all evening. Well, as At better stores everywhere . . . or write McGregor sportswear found out how come, they got on the the son says, 'There's one more river to tactical 303 Fifth Avenue • New York wire and said the cavalry was cross.' Here comes General Heidekooper over shoolin' up the artillery. I said I to the speakers' stand." ANY ROLL couldn't ride way over here, it would kill DEVELOPED me. So they says to git off an' lead him GENERAL HEIDEKOOPER, his and 8 Amazingly then. I ain't had nothin' to eat. I bought a blouse bright with ribbons, ex- Beautiful Prints in Natural Colors, Only 25c! hot dog an' some coffee, an' stood there pounded the feat of the river-crossing, NATURAL COLOR REPRINTS, 3c Each eating an General Heidekooper come up with its pontoons, its attack boats, its 35mm Films Dev. and 36 Natural Color in his car an' scared the horse, an' he transport of material, its smoke screen, Enlargements, $1.25. took off an' spilled my coffee an' stepped its hour of darkness, its feints, its simu- NATURAL COLOR PHOTO, C215, Janesville, Wis. on my hot dog. So then General Heide- lated crossings, and its final success, due kooper gets out of his car an' asks me ninety-nine and nine-tenths percent to

where is the cavalry. So I told him all him. He spoke before a microphone, which At Last! Honest Advice on 1 knew, an' then we heard the nrin' an' amplified whatever he said so that all the come over." grandstand, where the commissioned offi- STOMACTTULCERS, "The horse is here," said Lieutenant cers sat, and all the ball field, where the Dunphy. "It came into the led-horses ten sergeants of the first three grades sat, and GASTRIC HYPERACIDITY, minutes ago." the surrounding driveways where the sour stomach, acid indigestion "Go get your horse, McGonigal!" said civilians and spectators stood, might Colonel Tiffany coldly. "We're goin' hear. spotlight beat upon him from gas and other stomach distress A home." each of two towers so that all the above you suffer gnawing, burning pain, IF the General gas, heartburn, and other distress — it "Oh, Colonel! Didn't you capture might see. When Heidekooper may or it may not be stomach ulcers. It is trucks?" had finished his speech, a civilian arose questionable whether any medicine has "No. It's fifteen miles to camp. If you from the press box below the stand and ever healed an ulcer. Ulcers probably heal by natural processes, but you can don't feel like riding, you can walk." handed something up to him that shone nature. IMPORTANTLY HELP When he had gone, Colonel Tiffany yellow as gold in the calcium glare. A You should know the facts. An informa- tive booklet, in simple, understandable turned to Lieutenant Dunphy. murmur of interest arose. What was this? comprehensively with language, deals "Now you may tell me who has the An efficient subaltern officer who stood stomach complaints. It is yours for the lowered quickly a microphone so asking. Simply fill out the coupon below. general's hat cord." by, "Corporal Lenox. When you ordered that what the donor of the gift might FREE BOOK- MAIL TODAY him to chase McGonigal he saw the cord say would be heard by all. lying in the grass and picked it up, think- "You remember me, General?" came F. H. Plunder, AL-4, Plunder Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. tones the Send me today free copy of booklet "Facts ing some cavalryman had dropped it. McGonigal's honest through and the Pfunder Special About Plunder's," He reported to me, sir. I told him to hang amplifiers. "I met you the day you was Guarantee. onto it. It occurs to me, sir, that we might captured by the cavalry. Don't you re- nam :•: put it on our regimental standard, with member, when the cavalry was gummin' ADDRESS the battle ribbons we won in France as everything up so no one could have the CITY STATE machine-gunners." maneuver? Well, I picked up your hat The AMERICAN LEGION Marine Whin Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine cord off the ground and stuck it in my pocket. It fell off your hat when you

slammed it down that time when you was mad. Remember? I didn't know it was yours until the next day." For Great Occasions There was a hush upon the parade ground. The general stood before a mike, and could be heard grinding his teeth. "Yeh, I know," comforted McGonigal. "It makes yuh mad to be captured. But I'm sorry I picked up your hat cord. I

didn't know the difference. I thought it was a cavalryman's." cJn&ven Here some senior officer snatched away the mike, and McGonigal's further words were lost in a rippling wave of ^Tnek suppressed laughter. "Dunphy!" raged Colonel Tiffany, when he could be heard above the in- ScHLITZ subordinate cheering of the cavalrymen. "Did you disobey my orders? You mean to say you didn't return General Heide- kooper's hat cord to him?" "On my honor I did, Colonel," gasped Lieutenant Dunphy. "That can't be General Heidekooper's! He wouldn't wear two hat cords! See! He's thrown

it down on the ground again." "Go find me McGonigal!" ordered the colonel quickly. Sometime afterward, where the grand- stand sheltered them from the stream of officers hurrying homeward from the critique, Lieutenant Dunphy produced McGonigal to Colonel Tiffany. "Where did you get that hat cord, McGonigal?" demanded Colonel Tiffany.

"I borrowed it off Corporal Lenox," said McGonigal with honest pride. "I got an assignment to cover the river crossing, so I was in the press box takin' down all the speeches. The editor that ordered the river crossin' story was there, too, an' he says to me, 'How do they spell that gen- eral's name?' An' I knew right off, ac-

count he spelled it to me so careful the day the cavalry captured him. 'You mean the cavalry captured that general?' says the editor. T don't believe it.' 'If it's so,' says I, 'will you buy the story instead o' this river-crossin' spaghetti?' 'Sure,' he says. So I seen Lenox out there an' I says, 'Loan me your hat cord.' Well, the general looks at the hat cord to make

sure it wasn't his, an' everybody knew that I was tellin' the truth when I said he'd been captured." "It's a wonder he didn't kill you when

he saw it was an enlisted man's hat cord!" expostulated the colonel. "Why should he? He knows an' so does everyone else in the outfit that I can't tell the difference between a caval- ryman's and a general's." When the colonel could speak he asked one more question. "McGonigal, why did you take the As an outward indication of what is found inside, the famous Schlitz trouble to do a thing like that when you brown bottle has a new, glamorous cream, gold and brown label. In- already had one assignment to write up side and outside — it is America's most distinguished bottle of beer. the river crossing?" Truly the beer with which to celebrate the great occasions of lite. "Colonel," earnestly answered Mc- Gonigal, "I put in a day of hell out there Try it todav. Discover how really good a bottle of beer can be. on that horse, an' I didn't want it to go

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as the worst crime-inciter in America. itself. He worked out a plan and mobil- What is this narcotic that causes crime ized Minnesota's 478 Posts. For 11-IV-t quality and supreme sat- and drives its addicts to incredible mad- He obtained the cooperation of news- isfaction, look for the I f - 1 mark on the fishing lackle you buy. You'll ness? papers and city officials; church groups find the II I road to enjoyable fish- In Europe and Asia it is known as the and civic associations; highway workers ing when you go the ll-I way. hemp plant, or Indian hemp, and more and section supervisors; railroad agents THf CASTER (Casting Rod) than two thousand years ago the Greek and section foremen, town boards and Two-piece tempered bamboo. Stainless steel tit) and guides. Scrutite reel scat historian Herodotus described it accur- the farmers. With each Post as a leader Beautifully whipped in blue and blach silk. Lengths 4, 4V2 , 5, 5% ft. ately. Among the Arabs it is known as in its community marihuana patches Each $6.62 hashish, kif and in the Far East it is were located cut down and burned. H-l TEST CASTING LINE called bhang. Out there natives under The first reports were pretty good. Smallest diameter per pound test of any black its influence who go mad, slashing and More than 640 tons of marihuana were waterproof line. Each strand waterproofed— killing until themselves killed, are said destroyed; hundreds of acres cleared. But then waterproofed after braiding. The greatest to be juratonentado, or running amok. And these reports also gave some idea of the casting line you ever used, 50 yds. of 12, its baleful influence has poisoned whole magnitude of the job. There were millions 18, 2T) and 30 lb. test. $2 and $2.50 nations of aborigines and stayed the of acres left of growing marihuana and hand of progress among them. at this rate it would take eternity to do ADMIRAL REEL This hemp plant is hardy, withstanding the job. More hands were needed. Smooth running, free spool, level windingj all climatic rigors, as consequence Eddie State. anti-backlash. Durable and a turned to the The Minne- makes — Light weight has spread from its original American sota legislative committee introduced a long easts easy. Heau- tiful chrome finish. habitat in Mexico until it can be found in resolution in the legislature which would $5.00 practically every State in the Union, grow- define marihuana as a noxious weed. Send 3c postage for Ozark Ripley's ing and thought of as a common weed. If the resolution passed, then it became .1 1 1 In -1 r .il. book b- 1 on h-b in^i and fishing tackle with Criminals have discovered that a fat the duty of the State Department of details of our $500 cash prize contest to living can be made selling "reefers" six Agriculture to see to its destruction. As a name our new fish- for a dollar. They have learned that de- noxious weed marihuana must be de- ing line. Address

. (i, Horroeks-lhhotson Co., bauching grammar and high school stroyed by the farmer on whose land it , N. Y. or Grimsby, Ont. students is a swell, easy-money racket. grew (unless he had a license to grow it Among those who saw these dreadful for commercial use in making twine and HORROCKS-IBBOTSON consequences was the late Eddie Lindell, rope). If, after warning, the farmer did UTIC A, N. Y. then Department Adjutant of Minne- not destroy it, then the Department sota. A young high school student had of Agriculture attended to the job—antl walked out the fifteenth floor window of a sent the farmer the bill. hotel so she wouldn't have to tell her Through Eddie's efforts a resolution WER E YOU THERE parents she had failed in plane geometry. was introduced in The American Le- ,-^^£1 Shnw \1u1r comrades by wearing your con- IPARI^27J vention clasps- -Now available for all con- Physicians told him the results of mari- gion's national convention in Los Angeles fT!pTDi7iT'^l mentions from Paris '27 including Boston i i i I uc kui o i .,„ s0)jd (]j e struck bars, huana-smoking were unpredictable, vary- demanding federal recognition of the bronze finished, raised, polished letters. Easily attached to ribbon of your legion ing with the temperament of the victim. evils of marihuana, and requesting an medal. Send easli or money order. 2."ic each, 5 for $1.00. 10 for $2.00. One of them outlined the effects of the amendment to the Uniform State Nar- BADCE CO. W CONVENTION drug. "There are, roughly, eight stages," cotic Act covering marihuana. This re- S0UTHVILLE MASS. he said. "Unnatural light-heartedness, solution was adopted and re-affirmed at intellectual excitation, dis- MAKEBKMOm association of ideas and Start at once in pleasant all exaggeration of emotions; year business distributing home necessities. Show over illusion in regard to time 200 fast selling, nationally and space; fixation of ideas known guaranteed products. Sure-fire plan with outfit of full derived from near-by size packages. Full or part time. Liberal Credit plan. Old Estab- stimuli; overbalancing lished Company. Write E. J. Mills, 1763 Monmouth Ave., Cincinnati, oii.n emotional disturbances; commission of violent acts due to irresistible impulses; hallucinations, varied and HELP often terrifying." And finally Eddie was KIDNEYS PASS told permanent insanity results from continued use. Then a youth under 3 PINTS A DAY eighteen held up and shot Doctors say your kidneys contain 15 miles of tiny to death a filling station tubes or filters which help to purify the blood and keep you healthy. Kidneys remove excess acids and manager. help most poisonous waste from your blood. They "This," said Eddie, "is people pass about .'} pints a day. When disorder of kiilney function permits poison- a job for the Legion." ous matter to remain in your blood, it may cause nag- ging backache, rheumatic pains, leg pains, loss of pep Trying to discover ways and energy, getting up nights, swelling, pulfiness and means, Eddie learned under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. Frenuent or scanty passages with smarting and burning some- that you couldn't destroy times shows there is something wrong with your kidneys or bladder. the countless criminals who Doan's Pills, Don't wait! Ask your druggist for found this an easy way of used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They give happy relief and will help the 15 miles of kidney making a living. So you T 1 an artist! I only stop when the tubes flush out poisonous waste from your blood. Get had to destroy the weed light is a deep rich red!" J loan : Pills.

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the Chicago National Convention, last fall. Eddie Lindell died before comple- tion of his task. But Chic Zwiener, his successor, Nate Bovee, the chairman of the Minnesota Marihuana Eradication Committee, carried on. And Department BEFORE YOU BUY- Commander Allan Briggs saw final re- sults. Marihuana was defined by law as a Be sure to see the noxious weed, and the many hands Eddie foresaw as needful are now engaged in New Remington 500 Series destroying it. The time will come when no marihuana will grow in Minnesota unless it be licensed for commercial use.

But if nearby States permit marihuana to grow wild, so that criminals can obtain their supply close at hand, then what has Minnesota achieved? "What Minnesota has done," Depart- ment Commander Briggs declared, "all States should do. For as long as mari-

huana is at hand there will be criminals to prepare the narcotic and ignorant

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54 UNCROWDED Tonth speaks for ^America

FOR ALL THE FAMILY {Continued from page 27) Gather together the vacation ideas of every mem-

ber of the family . . . active and vigorous or quiet female patients, with an average of sixty- Post Adjutant Karl S. Whitten reports

and restful . . . bundle them into one package and two bed days per patient and an average to us. label it for Unspoiled Vermont. Here amid scenery and greenery unsurpassed in eastern America your patient age of sixty-four years. As this is Eighteen of the twenty Past Com- type of Country Fun or rural rest abounds every- written we have nine persons on the manders were present, two were absent where at its uncrowded best. Rugged, verdant hills and mountains, picturesque valleys and villages; waiting list and three requests for wheel because of having removed from the com- crystal lakes and streams, splendid roads and inns chairs. Ours is a railroad Post and the munity. As each Past Commander was sports, food and hospitality that turn ' transients" into REGULARS. For a pre-view of year-round hospital bed service was set up primarily introduced he lighted a candle on the Vermont recreation send for free book, "Un- for the New Haven Railroad family, huge birthday cake and gave a brief out- spoiled Vermont," illustrated in color. though we handle as many outside calls line of the highlight of Post accomplish- Include Vermont in Convention Trip as possible." ment during his year.

If you plan to attend the Boston Convention in In the same city New Haven Post is "Our Post maintains a very active September, be sure to circle through the Green working out its own plan of humanitarian community service program and we have Mountains and see Vermont in her "Glory Month". The hills are ablaze with vivid fall col- service and is, according to a report a very nice home in the center of the ors from Sept. 15 to Oct. 20. Join the trek lor this received from Post Commander Joseph town, which is maintained by our mem- beautiful spectacle of Nature—lamed through- out the East. P. Murray, carrying on two distinct bership without other aid. Sometimes it

Dept. of Conservation and Development programs that cannot fail of being of the has been tough going for a Post with an Vermont Publicity Service greatest practical community help in the average membership of thirty-five," says 43 State House, Montpe.ier, Vermont City of Elms. Adjutant Whitten, "but our membership Recently a blood donor squad was or- is willing to lend a hand. At regular inter- ganized under the leadership of Past vals a detail of Post members makes Commander Edward Shield and, not necessary repairs and paints the quar- content with this single activity, an- ters." nouncement was made that the Post would furnish and equip a room in the We're Past Twenty-One wing of St. Raphael's Hospital. THE Legion celebrated its twenty- first birthday Saturday, March Time Marches On on — 1 6th. Posts throughout the country TWKNTY years is a long time in the and there must have been thousands of life of an organization such as The them—celebrated the event with special American Legion in which a definite, meetings of one kind or another, but dated, membership line is fixed and the nearly all carrying out the theme that gaps in the ranks cannot be filled by the Legion has come of age. Meetings ATTENTION LEGION AUXILIARIES, representatives of a younger generation. were held to honor old timers, Past So, when a Legion Post celebrates its Commanders, and special guests. Others Ladies Aids, and all other like bodies! If you want to earn easy money for your order we are twentieth birthday long before the held parties to listen to the four-star in a position to help you. Many arc now using our method and are well pleased. Of the most outstamlinp; twenty-first anniversary of the establish- birthday broadcast and to hear the mes-

ment of the parent body it catalogues sage of National Commander Kelly. There itself as one of the elders. were banquets, feeds in army style, box THE MAYER COMPANY Clifton G. Marshall Post, of Upton, suppers, stand-up feeds and whatnot, Waterloo, I Massachusetts, made much of its twen- but almost invariably a birthday cake tieth birthday party by paying special with twenty-one candles. honor to the twenty men who com- Adjutant Harry A. Schmid reports

manded it during its first score of years, that James Harvey Post, Ventnor City, it

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rnrr a little book which rrXLL SHEDS LIGHT ON Stomach Ulcers Caused by Gastric Hyperacidity Distress after eating, stomach pains, bloating, heartburn, gas, sour stomach, and indigestion due to excess stomach acid are discussed in this free booklet It brings news of Von s Pink Tablet treatment — a treatment used by over a ciuartei of a million. A treatment thai thousands have reported brought amazing re- lief right at home without liquid diet or loss of time from work, a treatment, which has helped nature to heal stomach ulcers caused by gastric hyperacidity. Write today for this free booklet and our trial offer —with monev- There's punch and pep in the twenty Past Commanders of John C. back guarantee if not satisfied. Write CHICAGO VON CO., Dept. A.L. 2 Peterson Post, Warsaw, Indiana; all living, they are active in Post and 1712 Estes Ave., Chicago, III. Legion affairs

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New Jersey, set out a super-colossal birthday cake that measured four and ashamed I one-half feet in height, with a base of I eurc not twenty-five inches and each tier gradu- ating eight inches. It was surmounted by of her a Legion emblem fashioned in the proper colors out of spun sugar, and illuminated with varicolored rosebuds electrically powered by a battery concealed under the FALSE stand. Some cake. A neighbor, Byron Pennington Croker Post of Wildwood, New Jersey, cut a big cake at their cele- bration, which was attended by the TEETH Mayor and other notables. The jubilee was held, according to Alfred Winter- SMILE burn, Americanism Chairman, for the double purpose of observing the organiza- S*l>w tion's birthdate and to mark another year THANKS TO of practical community service. POLIDENT Beauty Bath Sandhills Post of Southern Pines, North Carolina, held a joint meeting with jF Keeps Plates Like New — Without Brushing their Auxiliary and Sons of the Legion, while Five Oaks Post at Cheraw, South Are you letting dingy false teeth destroy your Carolina, put on an old fashioned barbe- smile . . . perhaps your whole charm? Does cue, with all the trimmings. "The pig the very thought of unattractive plates make simmered over the oak embers for twelve you self-conscious when you .should be well- long hours," writes Johnny Wagner, FALSE TEETH WEARERS poised? The tiling to do is—get Polident— Post Service Officer, "and was really often worst breath offenders powder that magically dissolves away tar- something to write home about." Mov- A dark film collects on plates and nish, stain, food-deposits ing on to the South, Haisley Lynch Post bridges, that soaks up odors and from plates, remov- impurities! It e-ets in crevices able bridges without brushing, acid of Gainesville, Florida, called in Legion- where brushing can't even reach! or dan-

ger ! What a, difference in the way your plate looks naires, Auxiliares, Sons and Juniors to Almost always it results in "den- ture breath" probably the most and feels! Polident purifies your plate — leaves it do honor to the birthday occasion and to — offensive breath odor. You won't clean — attractive! Gums look more "alive" too! listen to address Chaplain C. L. know if you have it but others an by Leading dentists recommend will! Yet Polident quickly dis- POLIDENT. Only Pridgen, organizer of "The American solves all film — leaves 30c, any drug store; money back if not delighted. Legion Honor Society of Alachua plates absolutely odor- free and sweet. County," The members of this society Millions call Pol- are school children who have been ident a blessing! awarded Legion Honor medals in the schools of Alachua County, Florida. POUDCIIT Cleans, Purifies Without Brushing! The idea has spread to other counties this l/ Do daily: Add a little Polident powder to 2 glass water. and similar groups are in process of or- S _J Stir. Then put in plate or bridge for 10 to 15 minutes. Rinse— and it's ready to use. ganization. Frank A. Johnson Post, of Johnson City, New York, made a big community affair of their birthday celebration, says If YOU are troubled with itching, bleeding INVENTORS Post Adjutant Lawrence W. Smith. The or protruding Piles, write Take first step to protect your Invention for a generous celebration started with a big turkey ILES TODAY —without cost. Get fiee Record of In- vention form and 48 paae Book, "Pat- D Wonderful dinner at the club house, where some I Sample of Page's ent Guide for the Inventor." Time H Combination Pile Treatment FREE counts! Don't delay. Write today. three hundred and fifty Legionnaires Clarence A. O'Brien Patent and guests were served; E.R. PAGE Co., Dept. 471-E-9 Marshall, Mich. Registered Attorney an Americanism Dept. OF4o. Adams Bide.. Washington. D. C. meeting at the local high school audi- torium attended by about six hundred persons, winding up with open house at the club with dancing and entertain- ment until the wee sma' hours. One hour YOUR LATEST ADDRESS? of the Americanism program was broad- Is the address to which this copy of THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE was mailed correct for all near issues? If not, fill in this coupon cast over the facilities of Station WNBF. future please and mail THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE, 777 No. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind.

Until further notice, my mailing address for The American Legion Magazine is The Preamble new address TIE Department of Connecticut, Name through Mrs. Paul E. Cheney, Chair- (PLEASE PRINT) man of the Department Radio Commis- Street Address . sion, worked out a most constructive educational program when, on March City .State.

1 2th, a series of ten weekly talks on the 1940 membership card number. Preamble to the Constitution of The American Legion was begun, broadcast Post No .Dept. OLD ADDRESS over the facilities of Station WTIC at Hartford. Each speaker on the program

Street Address . was assigned one article of the Legion's ten commandments for discussion, lead- City .Stati ing with "To {Continued on page 36)

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uphold and defend the Constitution of pare and serve a full meal to the members the United States of America," by of the Post and our Auxiliary Unit," Anson T. McCook, Past Department writes Past Commander Francis K. Commander and distinguished Hartford Bowser of John C. Peterson Post, War- attorney. Other sections were discussed saw, Indiana. "We, too, are proud of our by Legionnaire Governor Raymond E. Post and of the continued activity of the Baldwin, Albert N. Jorgensen, Presi- Past Commanders, twenty in number. dent of the University of Connecticut; To a man they maintain an active inter- Dr. Odell Shepard, Professor of Eng- est in the Legion and in Post affairs. The lish, Trinity College; Robert P. Butler, only one who has moved from Warsaw, United States District Attorney; De- Homer McDaniels, has since served as

partment Commander Bernard J. Acker- Adjutant and Commander at Dunkirk, man; Miss Lelia E. Thompson, attorney; and is now Fifth District Commander. • One delightful pipeful of the Rabbi Abraham Feldman; Colonel "For fifteen years our Post has owned Original Rum & Maple Blend J. 53 will tell you why it has be- Edward J. Hickey, Superintendent of its own home, including a fully equipped come America's No. 1 Fine Pipe Tobacco. There never was a State Police, and Major Leonard J. kitchen, well furnished club rooms and a tobacco like it. It's a master Maloney, Director of the Connecticut large meeting hall. Our membership has mixture of costly sun-bright Virginia, North Carolina and Employment Service. been very consistent, we have maintained Syrian Latakia tobcccos blend- ed in the English tradition, then an average of two hundred and forty infused with genuine Jamaica for the past ten years. In addition to Rum and pure Vermont Maple Vital Statistics Sugar. Buy the regular foil pack doing all those things that normally — 25c was 70c,- or the handy

small size pocket-fit pouch — 1 5c, BELIEVE that Fulton County fall to a live Legion Post, we make each was 40C Also in 5, 8 and 16 Insist on the Original WE Rum Post of Atlanta, Georgia, has es- year a substantial contribution to local oz. Ryni Barrel Canisters. & Maple Pipe Mixture, Blend 53. Guard against tablished some kind of a national record charities, provide community entertain- imitations. Write for gen- erous sample, send 5< coin this year," writes Adjutant Alex M. ments, and lead in youth activities. or stamps to cover mailing Hitz. "Our 103Q membership was two "Reading from left to right in the •and handling cost. When you buy look for the words hundred; our 1040 paid-up membership picture, which was taken at the most "Original",' Blend 53" and now stands at two hundred ten. Of gathering of the Past Command- this name . . . RUM & and recent MAPLE TOBACCO CORP., this total, are renewals only ers, the old-timers are arranged in the 106-E'East 16th Street, 1040 189 — New York, N. Y. eleven of last year's members having order in which they served: Front row,

failed to pay up at the time this is written. Ezra W. Graham, lawyer; Russell Phil- mm i'TTTF This loss has been offset by reinstating lips, clothier; Arwid McConnell, pro- five former members and by admitting prietor of auto body shop; Kenneth sixteen new ones. Our re-enrollment per- Stokes, sheet metal shop; Orville B. centage of 04.5 for 1940 exceeds that of Kilmer, Postmaster, retired; Charles R. Legion posts and other promoters ol for Ior an for Wagner, dentist; Carl F. Beyer, stock outdoor events carry Rain Insurance indem- 91.3 1037, 91-4 !Q38 d 90.3 nifying against loss of income or expense. 1939. Our Post was chartered in arid farm operator; second row, Wilbur F. /ETNA INSURANCE COMPANY 1033 INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA of the present membership thirty-four Maish, manufacturer; Everett E. SPRINGFIELD FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE Jr., COMPANY have been in the Post for eight years, Rasor, lawyer; Peter A. Carroll, foreman, Applications must be filed seven days prior to event. Sec Local Agent in your town, or address thirty-seven for §even years, sixteen for State Highway Department; Homer Rain Department, 209 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, III. six years, seventeen for five years, McDaniels, lumber dealer; Hurless Nine, twenty-three for four years, forty-two for decorator; Arden Poor, manager, grain three years, twenty-five for two years elevator; top row, Blount Schlemmer, NEED PROFESSIONAL SERVICES? and sixteen for one year." sheet metal shop; Francis K. Bowser, lawyer; Morris G. Fawley, mechanic, Among our Legion membership are Past Commanders State Highway Department; Wilbur J. listed 78,408 professional men in busi- Gill, restaurant owner; Ralph Jay, field ness for themselves. This list includes the third consecutive year Company; Loren physicians, lawyers, architects, engineers FOR we man for Wilson & and men of other classifications who had have had a one hundred percent Chastain, high school principal; and 0. before first tt> win a university degree attendance at our Past Commander's Ray Miner, lumber dealer. they could start earning a living. dinner, when the Past Commanders pre- Boyd B. Stutler. We, of this million-strong Legion, have constant calls for services to protect our health, to keep our business and family affairs within proper legal bounds, to LEGIONNAIRE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE bu Id or improve structures or to use an engineer's precise knowledge, and when Edward M. Stevenson, Phoebe Apperson Hearst Post, New York City. Eddie we have those calls let's Buy American Rickenbacker, George Washington Post, Washington, D. C. Legion. Leonard H. Nason, Crosscup-Pishon Post, Boston, Massachusetts. Herbert M. Stoops, First Division Lieut. Jefferson Feigl Post, New York City. American Legion professional men are Le Roy Boyd, Las Animas Post, Las Animas, Colorado. among the nation's leaders in their V. E. Pyles, 107th Infantry Post, New York City. chosen careers. Le Roy Bartlett, Berkeley (California) Post. outstanding Many a celebrated doctor, Raymond Sisley, Pacific Post, West Los Angeles, California. important lawyer, famous architect or Elsie Woixott, Edw. H. Monahan Post, Sioux City, Iowa. engineer is a Legionnaire. They're add- J. W. Schlaikjer, Winner (South Dakota) Post. ing lustre to the Legion emblem and we Stewart H. Holbrook, Tracy Ross Post, Woodsville, New Hampshire. can all benefit by seeking out Legion- Grant Powers, Thomas Roberts Reath Marine Post, Philadelphia. naires and giving them our business Frederick. C. Painton, William C. Morris Post, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. when we need professional services. magazine, all whom are Legion- Buy American Legion. Conductors of regular departments of the of naires, are not listed.

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{Continued from page n) dead in the World War. One of the most prominent of British statesmen, a for- JOE DiMAGGIO AND JOHNNY MIZE BECAME BAT- Minister, said to one day mer Prime me TING CHAMPIONS IN 1939 WITH that "the trouble with our leadership is LOUISVILLE SLUGGERS! that there is nobody except old duffers LIKE the champions of the past, the 1939 champions used Louisville Sluggers exclusively. Johnny Mize of like me who have experience but no the Cards hit .349 to win the National League Batting energy, and the youngsters who have Championship and Joe DiMaggio of the Yanks aver- aged .381 to come out on top in the . energy but no experience. The intermedi- Your Sporting Goods Dealer carries a full line of the Famous Autographed Louisville Sluggers used by Big ate generation was wiped out." That is League Hitters. Ask for them by name. the lost generation, and the loss is a very serious matter for the world today. FREE "1940 FAMOUS SLUGGER YEAR BOOK" with 1939 records and tips on bat- But I do not think we have a lost gener- ting. Ask your Sporting Goods Dealer for your copy or send 5< in coin or stamps di- this unless it commits ation in country, rect to Dept. L-21., Hillerich &. Bradsby spiritual suicide. We talk about our cur- Co., Inc., Louisville, Ky. rent years as a great period of transition. HILLERICH ft BRAOSDY C I think it is, but the world has always been in transition. Conditions have been constantly changing. What has remained constant has been man's ambition, cour- age and soaring spirit. For a million years and more Man has pressed constantly if hesitatingly up- ward. I cannot recite the long tale of his DO WE HAVE TO DIE? rise from the brute in constant danger A strange man in Los Angeles, known as "The Voice of Two Worlds," reveals the story from starvation and more powerful of a remarkable system that often leads to almost unbelievable improvement in power of brutes to the safety and comfort of the mind, achievement of brilliant business and professional success and new happiness. Many report improvement in health. Others tell of increased bodily strength, magnetic person- average American home. We are being ality, courage and poise. The man, a well-known explorer and geographer, tells how he found these strange asked, and properly, to think much of the methods in far-off and mysterious Tibet, often called the land of miracles by the few so-called under-privileged third of our travelers permitted to visit it. He discloses how he learned rare wisdom and long hidden practices, closely guarded for three thousand years by the sages, which enabled many to nation, though I believe the figure exag- perform amazing feats. He maintains that these immense powers are latent in all of us. and that methods for using them are now simplified so that they can be used by almost gerated. But even if they are under- any person with ordinary intelligence. privileged it is not by comparison with He maintains that man, instead of being limited by a one-man-power-mind, has within him the mind-power of a thousand men or more as well as the energy-power of the past centuries but by comparison with universe which can be used in his daily affairs. He states that this sleeping giant of mind- the other two-thirds of our over 130,- power, when awakened, can make man capable of surprising accomplishments, from the prolonging of youth, to success in many fields. To that eternal question, "Do we have to 000,000 people. Speaking in material die?" his answer is astounding. The author states the time has come for this long hidden system to be disclosed to the only, of the terms more than 30,000,000 Western world, and offers to send his amazing 9000-word treatise—which reveals many homes in the United States more than a startling results—to sincere readers of this magazine, FREE of cost or obligation. For your free copy, address the Institute of Mentalphysics, 213 South Hobart Blvd., Dept. 88-H. third have telephones, far more than a Los Angeles, Calif. half automobiles, and more than two- thirds are equipped with electricity. More than twice the number of people The American Legion here per hundred than in Canada have National Headquarters cars; more than four times as many as in Indianapolis, Indiana Great Britain and France; and more than ten times as many as in Germany. It is Financial Statement well to think of our under-privileged but March 31, 1940 if we compare ourselves with others we have not done badly. This has been Assets accomplished under the American system Cash on hand and on deposit $ 626,205.86 Notes and accounts receivable 41,808.89 and I speak of it, not to under-rate what Inventories 99,763.81 The lowest price. . we still have ahead of us to do, but be- Invested funds 2,214,788.07 the biggest ralue Permanent investments: cause there is a strong tendency at pres- ... in Evin- Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund . . 206,989.42 ent to say our system has failed and that Office building, Washington, D. C, less rude history! depreciation 122,264.31 A smart and we should scrap it in favor of others Furniture, fixtures and equipment, less of- depreciation 33,361.45 capable outboard failed which have far worse. Deferred charges 45,948.18 fering all of Evinrude's have at present a great famed features—Hood- We mass of £3,391,129.99 f Co-Pilot steering unemployment. Nobody knows just Power— finger-tip controls — Under- how much. Estimates vary from around — trouble-proof Liabilities, Deferred Revenue water Silencing 4,000,000 to 10,000,000 or so. Perhaps Centrifugal Pump Cooling — ex- the present Census will help traordinary starting ease — a com- us to find and Net JT orth plete Evinrude for only $29.95! out, but it is a fact that jobs are scarce, 1940 boat a great motor for fisher- Current liabilities $ 59,046.00 Fits any ... and this is what chiefly gallon of fuel! interests those Funds restricted as to use 34,252.66 men . . . runs all day on a FREE! coming from the educational into the Deferred revenue 524.530.01 WRITE FOR 1940 CATALOG — Permanent trust: New catalog describes complete line of nine world. 4- working This is not the first time, Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund. . 206,989.42 1940 models, including sensational new Net Worth: — chrillingly smooth 4-cylin- however, that jobs have been hard cylinder "Zephyr" to Restricted capital $2,155,357.60 der performance with light weight and low cost. Unrestricted capital 410,954.30 2,566,311.90 Elto models, with prices starting find for young people starting out or for Also catalog of 1 940 at $26.50. Write today. Address, EVINRUDE MOTORS, older ones who thought they were safe. 553,391,129.99 4111 North 27th Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To mention only some periods, in the Frank E. Samuel, National Adjutant WRITE FOR FREE CATALOG years following {Continued on page 56)

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the terrible panic of 1837 it was estimated the younger people, and without mini- that nine-tenths of the factories in New mizing the seriousness of the present sit- England were closed, and that nearly uation, I iealize, though some of them two-thirds of the clerks and salesmen in may not like my saying so, that, as ever, Philadelphia were discharged. New York it is character and the good old Anglo-

uflMnori guide was a dead city with mobs carrying ban- Saxon word "guts" that count. As I have ners on which were inscribed said, all "JOYOUS VACATION DAYS in Tennes- "Bread or we have got soft, old and young, see" completely describes the mile-high Death." In the six years of the depres- but as the Greeks said, "Good things Great Smoky Mountains; battlefields and historic shrines; gigantic TVA dams and sion from 1873 to 1870 the suffering and are hard." I lind that many of the young lakes; metropolitan cities and quaint violence were worse than what we have want results without unpleasant work. mountain villages; State and National Parks; plantations and unspoiled wilder- experienced. Yet after these and other Let me cite a few homely examples in the ness; and everything in Tennessee—the ideal vacation State. It's FREE, send for catastrophes we recovered and reached past year or two. In spite of the cry of yours now! higher levels of business and standards unemployment in my neighborhood and DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION of living than were dreamed of the taxes I relief: I r before. pay for wanted to Room 9.>0 State Bldg. Nashville It is true that history never exactly put in water from my house to garage. repeats itself but there are patterns I could not get a man to dig the tiench TENNESSEE which can be followed. It took England, and had finally to pay a plumber's -

then a new manufacturing country, ant at high wages to dig it. I had to have about thirty years to recover from the my cesspools investigated. After consider- Save Your Feet Napoleonic Wars, which had lasted able delay the son of the president of the ^Thousands relieved from pain walk twenty years. It is also true that our free sanitary company, which does a large ith HEEFNER land is almost taken up, that, as they say, business, came and worked himself with ARCH SUPPORTS "the frontier is closed," but we have new one of his friends because he could not Write for Free Booklet and illimitable frontiers, the frontiers of get another man. An employer of labor "FOOT science, to exploit. here, who is known as a good boss and has FACTS" Last year I was in Pittsburgh looking a growing business, told me that when he

HEEFNER ARCH SUPPORT CO., 98 Lewis Bldg., Salem, Virginia into the situation. I went through great offered a young man steady employment steel mills which appeared to work almost for a year ahead the answer was: "You're automatically. "Technological unemploy- all right. Bill, but why should I work for ment," you say, loss of jobs from im- you when I can get practically as much Free for Asthma proved machinery. But in the 150 labora- from the Government and not work half tories of the Mellon Institute I saw new as hard?" Of a different sort, I have known During Summer industries being hatched which will each boys and girls who had the idea they employ their thousands of technicians wanted to be authors, artists, publishers

If you surfer with those terrible attacks of Asthma when it is and operatives and support their families. or what-not, but because they had a hot and sultry; if heat, dust and general mugginess make you ; wheeze and choke as if each gasp for breath was the very last; What is go ng on there is also going on in High School or College diploma thought if restful sleep is impossible because of the struggle to breathe; about 20,000 laboratories, from those of they ought to be given a good job at good if you feel the disease is slowly wearing your life away, don't fail to send a: once to the Frontier Asthma Co. for a free trial small companies to the huge ones of the wages at once. of a remarkable method. No matter where you live or whether you have any faith in any remedy under the Sun, send for this Duponts, the General Electric and others. On the other hand, let's take some free trial. If you have suffered for a life-time and tried every- There is the promise not only of innum- other cases. There are a couple of youngs- thing you could learn of without relief; even if you arc utterly discouraged, do not abandon hope but send today for this free erable jobs but of new goods and cheap- ters who do jobs for me. They are willing trial. It will cost you nothing. Address ened goods to raise the standard of living. to do anything to help themselves and Frontier Asthma Co. 220-F Frontier BIdg. Wl JNiitgnra St., Buffalo, N. \. We have the potential industries to make their family, and on every job they do jobs, to lighten and diversify labor— if we they learn something and increase their can get them started. This is not a poli- self-reliance. There is a little kid here of Learn Profitable Profession tical article I say nothing about thirteen who discovered there was in QO days at Home and so of how Ear Wo I think this can be brought about, but if a market for metal junk. No depression fowl— of cdiah Ma limh *41l $7n per week but many prefer to open thi it can be, and I believe it can, there is a for him. He gets from householders things ficcs. Large incomes from Doctors, hoppituli tannins und private putienta come t rising to rid of, sells to the quitlifv tlirmiKH OUT training. Urdu sun on the horizon of the future they want get them ffen h-t- fo < I, brighter for the youth of today than any junk dealer, and at thirteen is making booklet— They're FHEE. THE College of Swedish Massage earlier generations have seen. quite a bit of money. I have spoken of 30 E. Adams St., Dpt. A75, Chicago Why then the discouragement and dis- learning something from any job, but illusionment? I think there are several often the trouble is that a boy or girl reasons. In those terrible six years in the insists on just the job they think they WILL YOUR POST NEED 1870's youth seemed to have no chance are entitled to by their "education" or A FIREWORKS DISPLAY? but it did not demand as much as it does inclination. today. There were no telephones, radios, Here we come to another point which LIBERTY movies, cars, few bath tubs, and so on. It includes both the young and the old was no hardship to do without things generation, so-called, and, if I may, I shall Brilliant FIREWORKS that were unknown. We have all, old and indulge in personal recollect ion. The young The world's finest fire- young alike, got soft. We want to press have very little idea of what the world works—greater brilliance, color, flash and noise. a button and get what we want when we and its daily work are like. The parents The Fireworks Display at the 1939 want it. It is harder to do without, and have very little idea of the gropings of American Legion National Convention, >eld In Chicago was exhibited by much more expensive to live. What were their children. When I myself was a kid I liberty, and was voleil as the In-st ever displayed before Legionnaires. unknown luxuries to our fathers in our thought I might like to be a lawyer. I Send for our 64 page Catalog in Colors youth are considered essential necessities think now I might have made a fairly Containing Displays from $25. to $500.00 today. good and successful one, but I had the LIBERTY DISPLAY FIREWORKS CO. Without intending to get texts for a idea that a lawyer had to speak in court, FRANKLIN PARK, ILL., a Suburb West of Chicago sermon or material for an article, I watch and I have never been able to speak easily

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5' in public. "Declamation," as we called when we, or others in high places for us, school days. I make the wrong ones. If the idealism it, was the horror of my of LUCKY DAY FOR ME was terrorized by it, and I felt I could youth becomes selfishness, if the Youth never be a lawyer, not realizing that there Movement becomes merely a new pres- WHEN I FOUND OUT was an immense, interesting and very sure group to get something for nothing, profitable field of law which did not in- if the energy and ardor, which are the THAT THE GILLETTE volve any public appearances at all. I particular contributions of youth to the next thought of engineering. common society of all ages, are dissipated TECH RAZOR MAKES Then, being always fond of books and and disappear, I cannot see that they SHAVING A BREEZE writing, I thought I might be a teacher, are going to make any better world for and put in a post-graduate year at Yale. themselves and their own children, who I was disillusioned, and as I felt I had are to follow them in the eternal round lived on my father and the public long of life, than have their parents. enough I hunted for a job at any old There is no use calling names. There is thing. After tramping pavements with magnificent material among the young letters of introduction to paper concerns, of America today. Older people should leather concerns and others who had no not speak disparagingly of "the young FRED PERRY, use for me, I landed two jobs at once with generation." That generation also should International Tennis the same man. For writing his letters on come to realize that the world is extra- Champion the typewriter, keeping his books, and ordinarily complex and not easy to run. being generally his Man Friday I got Whether it is happy and successful de- $3.50 a week, and as secretary of a pends largely on the character, decency, bankrupt railway he was reorganizing honesty and social outlook of the indivi- Millions I got $3.50 more! At that time I had ac- duals, for society is not an organism, (in Of Men Now Enjoy quired an A.B. and an A.M. It wasn't current sociological jargon), but a vast Shaving Speed And Comfort exactly munificent but, as I said about collection of individual personalities. Never Experienced Before the kids who do jobs for me, I learned. Youth cannot improve the world unless FOR SHAVES worth telling your friends Since then I have been lots of things, as individuals they show themselves about, get acquainted with Gillette's Tech Razor. "There's discomfort having had every job in a Stock Exchange clearer thinking, more self-reliant, less new no ... no nicks or cuts," says Fred Perry. house from office boy to partner; an selfish, better citizens than their elders. "Easiest-shaving razor I ever used," agrees officer in the Army and war, etc. It was Countless of those elders are at least Coach Crowley. "Bucky" Walters, Gene Sar- not until I had been out of college some showing courage and the willingness to azen and thousands of others say the same. twenty years that I got into the work "carry on" under conditions which they Sets Up Your Beard I had always wanted to do—writing. did not knowingly or willingly make and The Tech has four basic advantages. One Finally, what can the young, coming which they do not like. Let youth show is the solid bar guard. This sets up your out into the world, do for us all? That, equal courage, or greater. Old and young whiskers like a barber does, speeds shaving and prevents nicks and cuts. and not simply what they can do for have to work together, and this is my Made For Each Other themselves, is the real problem which message to both "generations." America Today's Gillette Blue Blade has edges of a should confront them. Youth has no today, with all its shortcomings, is the new kind. They're sharper, longer lasting. experience and much less knowledge than freest, most peaceful, and for all classes, And because these blades are made to fit it often thinks it has, but it has energy the best land in which to live. That result your Gillette Razor exactly, they spare you and idealism. It has its distinct contribu- has not been attained by the youth just all the smart and burn of misfit blades. tion to make to the improvement of the coming on the scene. It has been the re- Ask your dealer for the new Tech Razor world, the bad condition of which at sult of the generations which have gone and five Gillette Blue Blades. You pay only

49c . . . and satisfaction is guaranteed. present they blame on their elders. If they before. But youth can carry the work are going to build a better civilization, farther and perhaps make it better. How NO TROUBLE GETTING and I hope to God they are, they must they can do that in their individual lives, GOOD LOOKING SHAVES themselves be better than we older peo- and for society which is the sum total of IN ple who have borne the burden so far, those lives, is what ought to be their A JIFFY WITH THE who have had to make our living, sup- chief thought and ambition as they start NEW TECH RAZOR AND port the youth, make our decisions with- out in what at the moment is a hard and GILLETTE BLUE BLADE supermen, and take our lickings baffling world for us all. out being JIM CROWLEY, Head Football Coach, Fordham University FOUR BIG IMPROVEMENTS * N SOLID BAR GUARD Streamlined Elephants ASSURES COMFORT CLEANS QUICKLY— {Continued from page ji) IEVER CLOGS \ \ 'pN^ NON-SKID TREAD during the early summer of 1018 for morning when out of a blue sky fluttered ^\PROTECTS FACE propaganda purposes. I was attached to these leaflets like a cloud of busy white a German heavy artillery regiment sta- butterflies. I kept my copy, waiting for (a\ RIGID BLADE SUPPORT v * A tioned at that time in the famous Mont the full story of the picture and I am SPEEDS SHAVING Kemmel sector in northern France. Our glad that now—twenty-two years later 2 1 -centimeter mortars had just helped —I found the story in your magazine regain possession of this valuable obser- and can add it to my war collection. vation point in the Flanders plane and "Based on my personal experience, we were enjoying a brief rest in our re- this was one of the first propaganda serve camp some five or six miles back of leaflets ever dropped into our lines. our firing position. From then on they came in great num- "Happy-go-lucky, youthfully proud bers. of my newly won lieutenant's epaulets, I "I came to the United States in 1930 was walking around the camp one nice and it is now {Continued on page 60)

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LIVER BILE- {Continued from page 59) Without Calomel—And You'll Jump Out my permanent home and place of work." "The plane pilot was reported to have of Bed in the Morning Rarin' to Go Now for a bit of translating of the received only minor scratches about the The liver should pour out two pints of liquid bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not flow- German captions which the English put face in the 'pelican dive.' Who was this ing freely, your food may not digest. It may just decay in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. on this propaganda leaflet. The "Durch pilot? If we can locate him, I should feel sunk and the You get constipated. You sour, Luftballon" is merely repetition of the like to send him a copy of the picture. world looks punk. It takes those good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills "By balloon" which also appears at the "The Yorktown was commanded at to get these two pints of bile flowing freely to right top. The title above the picture that time make you feel "up and up." Amazing in making by Commander J. J. Hanning, bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills reads "Photograph of Zeebriigge taken and Lieutenant F. L. Lowe was our Exe- by name. lOtf and 2.">^ at all drugstores. Stubbornly refuse anything else. fiom an English airplane." And below the cutive Officer. The Yorktown was com- picture, the caption reads: "The English missioned in 1888 and was at one time WE warships which blocked the canal: 1. commanded by the famous 'Fighting Intrepid. 2. Iphigenia. 3. Thetis. 4. The Bob' Evans who later became an admiral. ^ToAnySuitT breach in the breakwater." And if our Our old ship was taken out of commission H Double the life of your J/ coat and vest with correctly German-English dictionary threw us for at the Mare Island Navy Yard in June, i matched pants. 100,000 patterns. gH Every pair hand tailored to your measure. a loss in this translation, rest assured IQIQ." Our match sent FREE for your O. K. before pants are made. Fit guaranteed. Send piece that our reader-audience won't hesitate of cloth or vest today. SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY to tell us! so often one of the fellows or 209 S. State St» Dept. 9 18 Chicago EVERY girls who failed to make the journey PERHAPS you'll recall a story by across the pond to the A. E. F. tells us Jack Franklyn that appeared in the something of service in one of the widely- issue for October, 1030. It bore the title scattered posts where some of our troops "See You in Jail" and told in more-or- contributed their particular share toward less-fiction form of his fear of a general winning the war. This department feels court-martial because of disobedience that the snapshot, on page 31. of a com- It's easy to sell beautiful big neon signs on these terms Imagine! Your of orders while a member of the crew of pany of marines is a most interesting customer pays us only 15*" per day the U. S. S. That disobedience scene and we're it. —and we supply the big sign—all Buffalo. happy to display complete, ready to be connected to came when he and two shipmates went As ex-leatherneck Harry A. Shane of his store wires. ONLY ONE SALE EACH DAY to the rescue of an aviator whose sea- 813 Faile Street, Bronx, New York City, PAYS YOU 4£<7 PER plane crashed in San Diego Bay—but member of David Latkin Post of the MINIMUM 7*%/ Jtmrnm EARNINGS 'AVOWEE* instead of the disgrace he expected at Legion, sent it to us, we'll call upon We furnish all sales helps—colored the formal muster of the crew, he was him to tell about it illustrations—catalogs—and sales To Sell Neon Signs", manual. "How wri 1 E FOR FREE CATALOGS presented with a citation. We know that "I just finished reading the February Learn how to sell signs in one day CHICAGO SIGN SALES CORP. COMMISSIONS PAID DAILY, charlotte north Carolina yarn was based on fact because the Office issue and noticed something very inter- of Naval Records and Library in Wash- esting to me in the Then and Now De- REGULATION WAR MEDALS ington informed us that "a notation partment —about the marines in Cuba The largest and most complete illus- appears on the personal record of Jack during the 1917 and 1918 campaigns. trated hook on military insignia. It contains every medal and item of in- Franklyn to the effect that a letter of "I happened to be one of those ma- signia of tlie , Navy, and Marine Corps. Compiled hy commendation had been presented him rines. I had come up from Haiti and San- an Authorized Dealer of the United for the rescue of a seaplane pilot on July to Domingo after being down there States War Department. Send ten cents to cover mailing. 22, IQ20." during the 1015 and 1916 campaigns, GEORGE W. STUDLEY Although he failed to say so, we think and went to Annapolis, Maryland, after 597 Lake Avenue, Rochester, New York possibly that B. E. Christy of Weather- landing in Philadelphia on Christmas ford (Oklahoma) Post of the Legion was Day, 1916. I was transferred to the inspired by that story to send us the in- Brooklyn Navy Yard, reporting for duty USEFUL and HANDY teresting rescue picture which we show on February 6, 1917, and was still sta- on page 31. This is what he said in his tioned there as post electrician when letter: war was declared on April 6th. A BINDER suitable for preserv- "I am enclosing a snapshot of a "Early in May, 191 7, I was assigned ing your copies of The Amer- plane accident which happened in San to the 59th Company of Marines and we ican Legion Magazine. Diego Bay, California, during the spring left next day for Philadelphia for ex- THIS BINDER is strong, artis- of iqiq. I was a first class seaman on the pected embarkation for France. Our con- tic in design, beautifully em- U. S. S. Yorktown at the time, attached voy was made up of the transports Von bossed in gold, made of blue to the First Division under command of Steuben and DcKalb and several other artificial leather and will hold Lieutenant W. E. Torrey, and the pic- ex-German liners we had seized. six copies of The American ture was taken from the deck of our ship "After four days at sea, early one Legion Magazine. just a few minutes after the plane hit the morning we discovered that we had water. broken away from the convoy. It was BINDERS CAN BE purchased for volumes I to W\ II inclusive. The "The 'steamer' shown near the plane everybody's guess as to where we were current volume is XXVIII, is from the Yorktown and I believe its heading. Some insisted we were going to

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In foreign countries, add to remit- member of the rescue party. There is in Guantanamo, Cuba. Otherwise I tance estimated postage. also another rescue party shown in the would have been with the first de- The American Legion picture. They were from the North Island tachment of marines sent to France. Magazine Naval Flying Field, which is in the back- "We immediately learned that the ground. While their boat is behind the Germans in Cuba were causing a lot of P. O. BOX 1357 INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA plane, some of the North Island men can trouble through getting the natives In- seen standing on the plane. to revolt, and by trying to prevent the

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Allies from obtaining sugar from Cuba. report the proposed plan for your re- We had been sent inland to stop the union also to Chairman Toomey. natives from destroying the sugar planta- Boston National Convention reunions, tions. We chased the rebels all over details of which may be obtained from the the Island, usually about twenty-four Legionnaires listed, follow: of 1st Div. Annual national of all hours on their tail, but never caught Soc. — reunion First Div. vets. Henry J. Grogan, cbmn., 73 Sum- up with them and never had a chance to mer St., Hyde Park, Boston. Soc. of 1st Div. Auxiliary —Annual reunion. I enclosing fire a shot. The picture am Mrs. Gerald FitzGerald, pres., 83 Olney st., shows the 59th Company, 7th Regiment, Dorchester, Ma.ss. 2d Div. Assoc. — Reunion of all 2d Div. vets. U. S. M. C, on one of its chases through R. W. Robertson, chmn., I>2 Summer st., Boston. Soc. of 3d Div. — Reunion hq. at Hotel Bradford. the hills. Geo. F. Dobbs, reunion secy., 9 Colby st., Belmont, stationed at San Juan Mass. "We had been 4th Div. Hill, noted Assoc. —An- nual national •Jusi-so's L(Ou'H be able, from the reunion, Barker ^Je'ee qoir\q lACwe \v\ -to parade Wke Soldiecs House, Bos- Spanish- ton, Sept. American 22. Ben Pollack,

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Iti >sl . for quite a 0th,ii Div. time before Assoc. — An- nual natl. re- being or- union. For copy dered inland the Sightseer, write Clarence to guard a A. Anderson, natl. secy.- large sugar treas., Box 23, O.- v^l<3 PAY THE POSTAGE plantation. I A Stockyards Sta., Denver, was on this Colo. 10th Div. (esp. 41st Inf,) 2d natl. reunion. last station only for about two weeks TO SEND YOU Michael Cifelli, personnel adjt., 860 E. 228th st., when I was sent back to the States to be Bronx, New York City. 12th Div. Assoc. — Recently organized. 1st natl. paid off." reunion. H. Gordenstein, natl. adjt., 12 Pearl St., Boston. Shane referred, of course, to Comrade Soc. of 20th Div. — Annual reunion. E. Leroy the picture and story contributed by ex- Sweetser, chmn., 81 Hancock st., Everett, Mass. 77th Div. — Natl. reunion. For details, write Jos. Nurse May Griffith and so we asked E. Delaney, exec, secy., 28 E. 39th st., New York 20 SHAVES City. if hadn't noticed that the detail him he 78th Div. Assoc. — Reunion under auspices 78th in the picture had been identified as ma- Div. Post, A. L., of Rhode Island. Proposed organi- zation 310th Inf. Assoc. John P. Riley, 151 Wendell rines, when in fact they were sailors. st., Providence, R. I. 82d Div. Vets. Assoc. —Reunion, auspices Mass. That —which may not have been Chap. Gilbert A. Arnold, 3 Richard rd., Lexington, entirely an accident—brought a raft of Mass. 85th Div. Assoc.—Reunion banquet. J. J. letters to Miss Griffith and to the Com- Kraniak, pres., Mariner Tower, Milwaukee, Wise. Natl. Assoc. Ameb. Balloon Corps Vets. — FREE pany Clerk (of which more will be told Reunion, auspices Boston Bed. Hq. at Touraine in a later issue) from indignant, though Hotel. Eugene F. Daley, chmn., 13(5 Highland av., When we tell you that we bear the cost of Somerville, Mass. proving that our Listerine Shaving Cream friendly, ex-gobs and ex-gyrenes! So 05th Balloon Co. — Reunion. Chas. A. Carroll, G. & C. Fdry. Co., Sandusky, Ohio. is the cream for you, just Shane was wrong in suggesting in his we mean that. A.mer. R. R. Transp. Corps Yets. Annual re- — Examine the coupon. Note its offer of a reply that "while I did see the error in union of all railroad men. Gerald J. Murray, natl. adjt., 722 S. Main av., Scranton, Pa. 20-shave tube. That tube comes to you "free calling those gobs marines, I did not know Vets, of A. E. F. Siberia Natl. reunion- — and postpaid." We don't even ask you to banquet. L. H. Head, secy., 41 Nichols av., Brook- that I was eligible to criticize!" He lyn, N. Y. share the mailing cost. our Legion audience! But World War Tank Corps Assoc. —2d natl. con- doesn't know can such offer vention-reunion. L. A. Salmon, chmn., 11 Chap- We make an because experi- "During three he went on to say: my man pi., Lynn, Mass. ence has proved it works out to our advan- 301st Inf. Vets. Assoc. — Annual reunion and years of service in Haiti and Santo tage. get the military ball, Ritz Plaza, 218 Huntington av., Men who sample apparently Boston, Mon., Sept. 23. Hq. at Hotel Domingo, we marines had many an occa- Minerva. remain our steady customers . . . like it so Spear Demeter, chmn.. Hotel Minerva., 214 talk sion to soldier with the sailors and they Huntington av., Boston. much, they about Listerine Shaving Hq. Co., 302d Inf. Proposed reunion, James had to dress in our uniforms." So there's — Cream to their friends . . . sell them on it too! Burns, 180 W. Brookline st., Boston. in a partial reply to our friendly critics! M. G. Co., 302d Inf.—Reunion. .las. S. Mc- Send your request today. See how much Loughlin, 100 South Bend St., Pawtucket, R. I. faster this cream lathers — with brush or Co. A, 347th Inf. — Proposed reunion. Jas. H. Buckley, 44 Vernon st., Springfield, Mass. without. In hot water, warm water, cold a natural—that is, referring to IT'S 14tii Engrs. Yets. Assoc. —Reunion. Hq., water —even ice water. Note that we have a proposed outfit reunions during the Colonial Room, Hotel Westminster, Boston. Harold G. Knapp, chmn., 35 Minnesota av., Somerville, really lasting lather —one that stays up, Legion National Convention as "Boston Mass. loaded with moisture, clear through to the Tea Parties." Because so many of the 21st Engrs. L. R. Soc. —20th annual reunion, Boston, Sept. 22-24. F. G. Webster, secy.-treas., end of your shave. fellows have suggested this designation 113 E. 70th st., Chicago, 111. The price we've put on the regular tube 23d Engrs. Assoc. —Annual reunion. Hq. at in reporting reunions to us, we have Hotel Brunswick, Boston. Dinner-dance, Sept. 25, — 35^ — is in itself a surprise to old-time Hudson, chmn., Capital St., Concord, omitted it from all of them, because it A. C. 3 N. H. shaving cream buyers. Yet by actual count 29th Engrs. — Reunion. Write Herbert S. Rand, would merely be repetition. At any rate, 129 Florence rd., Waltham, Mass. the Listerine Shaving 56th (Searchlight) Engrs. Assoc.—Reunion. is Boston, Massachusetts; the Cream tube brings you the place S. J. Lurie, 2030 Clarence av., Berwyn, 111. between 130 and 175 dates, September 23d to 26th—although Co. F, 3d Engrs. — Reunion. John S. Buswell, 314 Warren St., Waltham, Mass. shaves. Get that big tube some reunions will start a day or two Hq. Co., 218th Engrs.—Proposed reunion. Wm. Aitken, 199 Condor st., East Boston, Mass. at any drug counter. Or before the convention opens. 303d F. A. Assoc. —Reunion, Hotel Sheraton, mail the coupon below. If your association or your local chair- Sept. 23. Page Browne, Park Square bldg., Boston. C. A. C. Vets. Natl. Assoc. — Reunion-banquet, man needs assistance in arranging for a floor show, Sept. 23. All vets Ry. Art., Trench Mortars, Anti-Aircraft, Art. Parks & Ammun. SHAVES FREE banquet, luncheon, en- 20 headquarters, a Trans, invited. R. R. Jacobs, 43 Frisbie av., Battle Lambert Pharmacal Co., Dept. 185, St. Louis, Mo. tertainment, or whatever is decided Creek, Mich. 57th Art., C. A. C. —Get-together party. Geo. E. Please send me free and postpaid your large sam- upon for the reunion, the Convention Donnelly, 1506 Lniversity av., Bronx, New York ple tube of Listerine Shaving Cream; Listerine Brushless Cream. (Check whichever is desired.) Reunions Committee, under the chair- City. 58th Art., C. A. C. — Regtl. reunion-dinner. av., Manchester, manship of Jeremiah J. Toomey, Court E. L. Paltenghi, 50 Park N. H. Name 71st Regt. C. A. C. Yets. Assoc. — Annual re- House, Lawrence, Massachusetts, stands 140 Bullard union. Theo. A. Cote, adjt., st., New Address ready to help. So when you ask that an- Bedford, Mass. Btry. C, 64th Art., C. A. C. —Proposed re- nouncement be included in these columns, union. Chas. Williams, (Continued on page 02) City State

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American Legion Magazine (Continued from page 61) INDEX of i 1 T '. Falcon st., East Boston, Massachusetts. U. S. S. Lake Elsinore—Proposed reunion. Robt. ( >rd. Dept., Camp Hancock and ( >rd. Schools— Hardy, 42 Congress St., Lawrence, Mass. ADVERTISERS Luncheon reunion, Boston City Club, Tues., Sept. U. S. S. Mount Vernon Assoc.—22d reunion. 24 Anthony O. ShaJlna, 305 Harvard St., ; Cam- P. N. Home, 110 State St., Boston. bridge, Mass. U. S. 8. O'Brien— Reunion. Karl A. Kormann, Co. 15, ,">Sth Amm. Tkn. — Proposed reunion. 23 Lakeville rd., Jamaica Plain, Mass. Almo Pennucci, 50 Upland rd., Somerville, Mass. U. S. S. Plattsburg— Annual reunion. Brent B. Baltimore Fireworks Co 54 Co. A, 439th M. S. T., M. T. C—2d natl. re- Lowe, chmn., 122 Bowdoin st., Boston. union. All T companies invited. Wm. L. Harvey, 234 L . S. S. Rijndam— Block Drug Co 46 2d reunion-dinner. Jas. F. Delhi st., Mattapan, Mass. McKeegan, 145 Greenpoint av., Brooklyn, N. Y.

304th Motor Trans. Co. Reunion. V. I — Wm. . S. s Ttsai Proposed reunion. Write I,. N. Begley, ohmn., 28 Mayfair st., l.ynn, Mass. Cartel Medicine Co 60 Chalifoux, 1915 E. 86th st., Chicago, III. Base Spare Parts, Depot Units, l-2-:S, M. T. C. U. S. S. Waters— Proposed reunion. Write T. H. 527 Chicago Sign Sales Corp 60 —Annual reunion, Parker House, Sept. 215. Stolp, 5404 N. 5th st., Philadelphia, Pa. Sandy Somers, pres., 49S Massachusetts av„ Cam- U. S. S. Wilhelmina Annual reunion. Dr. Milo 54 — Chicago Von Co bridge, Mass. M. Sorenson, 1001 W. <:th st., Racine, Wise. Field .'503 re- Remount Sqdrn. Assoc. —Annual U. S. S. Yacona— Reunion. Geo. J. Geisser, Pub. College of Swedish Massage 58 union dinner. W. J. Calbert, 527 State Mutual bids;., Bldgs. Dept., City Hall, Providence, R. I. Convention Badge Co 52 Worcester, Mass. U. S. S. Zeelandia— Reunion. Leonard W. Witt- Verne- il Vets., 1'nits 301-2-3, T. C, and M. man, 190. i E. Main st., Rochester, N. Y. other N'evers and Verneuil vets. —John E. U. S. S. C. 21,8— Reunion. Warren YV. Burnham, Doan's Pills 52 Havlin, chmn., 101 Milk st., Boston. 1395 Commonwealth av., Boston. 317th F. S. 15n. —22d reunion, Parker House, Syracuse (N. V.) Camp Band— Reunion, Sept. Sept. 23. For write Review Irving C. Austin, treas., 22. Thos. Smail, adjt., 11a Ashland St., Somerville, Emblem Division Cover III ISO PrescoU st., Heading, Mass. Mass. 101th F. S. Bn. —Proposed reunion. Geo. R. Amer. Merchant Marine Reunion. John Evinrude Motors 57 Deecken, — 173A Baldwin av., Jersey City, N. J. O'Brien, 14 Salem pi., Maiden, Mass. 37th Serv. Co., Sig. Corps— Reunion. Jos. E. Amer. Vets, with Italian Forces— Miss Frida Fitzgerald, Ford Motor Co Cover II Box 157, No. Cohasset, Mass. Smith, 410 Stuart St., Boston. Chem. Warfare Serv. Assoc.— Reunion-dinner. 2d Bn., U. S. Guajsds Proposed 48 — reunion. Wm. Franklin Institute Geo. W. Nichols, R. 3, Box 75, Kingston, N. Y. J. White, City Assessor, Iowa City, Iowa. Air Serv. Vets.— Reunion of all air vets. J. E. The National Yeomen F—Annual reunion and Frontier Asthma Co 58 Jennings, natl. adjt., 337 E. Oak st., Louisville, Ky. meeting. For details, write Miss Charlotte L. Berry, 1st Pursuit (Sqdhns. 147, 1S5 Group 27, 94, 95, comdr., 101 V St., N. E., Washington, D. C. Gillette Safety Razor Co 59 & 218)— Reunion. Finley J. Strunk, secy. -treas., 170 Roosevelt av., Bergenfield, N. J. 28th Aero Sqdrn.— Proposed reunion. Jack REUNIONS and activities at times Heefner Arch Support Co 58 Sullivan, 93 Park st., Springfield, Mass. -and places other than the Legion 72d Aero Sqdrn. Proposed reunion. Edward J. Hillerich & Bradsby Co 57 — Duggan, Martin Terrace, Marblehead, Mass. National Convention in Boston, follow: Co 52 1 MIth Aero Sqdrn. — Proposed reunion. Paschal Horrocks-Ibbotson 2d Div. Assoc. —22d annual natl. reunion, Morgan, 14 X. Market, Nanticoke, Pa. Hotel Statler, St. Louis, Mo., July 18-20. Fd Decker or 225th Aero Sqdrn.—Annual reunion. Jos. J. Institute of Mentalphysics 57 Bud Meliord, chmn., 1739 Ohio E. Louis, Pierando, 82 Weldon st., Brooklyn, N. Y. av., St. 498th Aero Sqdrn. — Proposed reunion. Robt. Illnois. Soc. of 3d Div. — Annual convention-reunion. Liberty Display Fireworks Co 58 F. Harding, 40 Beach st., Marblehead. Mass. 638th Aero Sqdrn. — Reunion. Write Willard L. Hotel Philadelphian, Philadelphia, Pa., July 11-13. C. J. McCarthy, Box 137 Camden, N. J. For copy Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. Johnson, comdr., 4842 Devonshire rd., Detroit, Mich. The Wotch on the Rhine, write Harry Cedar, 4320 41 dr., Velvet Selfridge Field Vets. Club—Annual reunion. Old Dominion Arlington, Va. 3o Div. West Virginia vets— Reunion, Clarks- 61 Jay N. Helm, pres., 9-10 Hill st., Elgin, 111. Listerine Shaving Cream burg, W. Va., June 8. ( Air Serv. Mech., 1st, 2d, 3d & 4th Regts. — Don Adams, Box 824, 'harles- Annual reunion, Sept. 23. John L. Cuffe, 21 Mason ton, W. Va., or R. L. Focer, M. D., 3102 Main st., Weirton, W. Va. Massachusetts Development & Ind. st., Salem, Mass. — Spruce Prod. Div. Assoc.—2d reunion. Wm. N. 4th Div. Assoc., N. and S. Calif. Chapters 48 10th state reunion, San Diego, Calif,, 11. Coram Edwards, secy., 422 Greenleaf st., Evanston, 111. Aug Write "Chuck" H. Yohn, dept. pres., 1789 Bakery Co. 337— 1st reunion and banquet. L. E. New York av., Mayer Co 54 Calif. Bancroft, Box 79, Sudbury, Mass. Altadena, of 5th Div.—Annual McCleary Clinic 48 Camp Rochambeau Associates St. Pierre- Soc. reunion, Hotel New des-Corps— BaiKiuet-reunion. Elmer F. Forest, Yorker, New York City, Aug. 31-Sept. 1. Aug 31 is at McGregor Sportswear 50 secy., 9 Arbutus pi., Lynn, Mass. 5th Div. Day Worlds Fair. W. E. Aebischer, chmn., Glenwood Gardens, Yonkers, N. Y. 7th Army Corps Hq , 3d Army Proposed re- Mills, E. J 52 — union. Dr. L. Lloyd Crites, 1219 River st., Hyde Red Diamond Round-Up— Reunion 5th Div. Park, Boston. vets, Morrison Hotel, Chicago, III., Aug. 31-Sept. 2. Frank Barth, 105 W. Madison st., Chicago. National Carbon Co. Cos. A, B, C & D, 5th Brig. M. G. Bn., USMC— Reunion. Arthur J. Rawlinson, 40 Central av., 0th Div. Natl. Assoc. — Reunion, Los Angeles, Eveready 45 Sylacauga, Ala. Calif., Aug. 25-30. C. A. Anderson, natl. secy., Box Club Camp Hosp. 52 Reunion. Hq. at Hotel 23, Stockyards Sta., Denver, Colo., or R. E. Moran, 39 — National Distillers Products Corp Kenmore. Ray S. True, 002 Main st., Hingman, 12sl S. Sycamore, Los Angeles Yankee (20th) Div. Vets. Assoc.—Annual Natural Color Photo Service 50 Mass. Med. Dept., Base Hosp., Camp Lee— 2d re- natl. convention-reunion, Boston, Mass., June 0-8. union-banquet. Mrs. Anna Pendergast, secy., 232 H. Guy Watts, secy., 200 Huntington av., Boston. 77th Div., S. Calif. Chap.— Reunion-banquet, O'Brien, C. A 55 E. Water St., Kalamazoo, Mich. Camp Sevier Base Hosp. Assoc.— Reunion. Hayward Hotel, Los Angeles, Calif., Aug. 25-30. M. R. Callaway, organizer. Box 873, Dayton, Ohio. Claude Armstrong, chmn., 1232 Bellevue av., Page, E. R., Co 55 Med. Det., St. Elizabeth's Hosp.— Proposed Los Angeles. reunion-dinner. Edw. C. Jackson, 205 W. 80th st., Soc. of 28th Div. —Annual convention, Lancas- 50 - Pf under, F. H., Inc New York City, or David Esbester, 2 Columbia av., ter, Pa., July 18-20. Walter W. Haugherty, secy 1444 S. Vodges St., Philadelphia, Pa. Polident 55 Newark, N. J. treas., Base Hosp. 31 — Proposed reunion nurses, doc- 29th Div. Assoc. —Annual convention, Norfolk, Prudential Insurance Co. of America 47 tors and enlisted men. Write Thos. J. Bannon, Va., Aug. 30-Sept. 2. Wm. C. Nicklas, natl. adjt., 13 Worcester sq., Boston. 4318 Walther av., Baltimore, Md. North Sea .Mine Force Assoc. — Reunion. For Dixie (31st) Div. Assoc. — Reunion, Jackson- Rain & Hail Insurance Bureau 56 roster, write J. Frank Burke, secy., 3 Sherwood rd., ville Beach, Fla., June 2-5. John B. Williams, pres., West Box 643, Miami, Ha. Arms Co 53 Roxbury, Mass. Remington Navy Radio Men— Proposed reunion. Mark 32n Div. Vet. Assoc.— Biennial convention. Feder, yeoman, 132 S. George st., York, Pa. Green Bay, Wise, Aug. 31-Sept. 2. Ralph H. Drum, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Nav. Radio School, Harvard Univ.— Proposed chmn., Green Bay. Camels Cover IV reunion. Harvard will co-operate. Write Willoughby 33d Div. War Vets. Assoc. —Annual reunion, B. Dobbs, 45 Melrose st., Arlington, Mass. Peoria, 111., June 28-30. Wm. L. Engel, secy., 12/ Albert 37 Prince Ith Co., U. S. N. T. S., Gun-tort— Reunion- N. Dearborn st., Room 1022, Chicago, 111. Rum & Maple Tobacco Corp 56 banquet. Paul Klose, Room 407 Municipal Court 34th (Sandstorm) Div.— Annual reunion, Sioux House, Pemberton sq., Boston. Falls, S. D., Aug. 10-12. Fred K. Cashman, gen. Nav. Trng. Sta., Rockland, Mf. — Reunion, chmn., Sioux Falls. annual St. Sani-Flush 46 Kenmore Hotel, Sept. 21. Andy Bunton, 1.5 Oak- 35th Div. Assoc.—21st reunion, ridge rd., Atlantic, N. Quincy, .Mass. Joseph, Mo., Oct. 18-20. For roster, report to F. W. Schlitz, Jos., Brewing Co 51 S. 8j. Kerwood, Armed (Iuard— Proposed re- Manchester, secy., P. O. Box 182, Joplin, Mo. union. Matthew V. Mason, jr., li Barnes av., East 37th Div. A. E. F. Vets. Assoc. —22d reunion, Seagram Distillers Corp 49 Host, hi, Mass. Mansfield, < ihio, Aug. 31-Sept. 2. Write Hq., 1101 State of Tennessee 58 U. S. Destroyer Burrows— Proposed reunion. Wyandotte bldg., Columbus, Ohio. Peter E. Cocchi, 25 Maiden st., Springfield, Mass. Rainbow (42d) Div. Vets.—22d convention- St mil. y. Gou ge W 60 U. S. S. Covington Assoc.— Reunion-banquet, reunion, Montgomery, Ala., July 12-14. Al Hoyt, Oumtnings, natl. secy., 3792 W. lo2d st., Cleveland, Ohio. Superior Match Pants Co 60 Hotel Lenox, Mod., Sept. 23. Geo. E. 195 Bowdoin st., Dorchester, Mass. Lost Bn. Survivors— Reunion-luncheon, New as I'. S. S. DeKalb— Proposed reunion. Ashley M. York City, Sun., Sept. 29, with Maj. McMurtrv Thompson Bros. Boat Mfg. Co 46 Smith, 8 Pierce st., Revere, Mass. host. Walter J. Baldwin, secy., 28 E. 39th st., New- '. I S. S. 1 )mi — Reunion. Dr. R. ( ). Level 1, chmn.. York City. Box 163, New Castle, Ind. 78th Div. Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Camp I'. S. S. (ieorf/id Proposed reunion. Chas. Noble, Dix, N. ,L, Aug. 10-18. For reservations, including United Brewer* Indii-liial Foundation . .43 — Navy Post, A. L., Fayette st., Boston. sleeping accommodations, meals and entertainment, U. S. S. Henderson — Proposed reunion. Arthur T. write Raymond Taylor, gen. secy., Box 482, Vermont Publicity Service 54 Connolly, 151 Payson rd., Chestnut Hill, Mass. Closter, N.J. U. S. S. Housatonic— Reunion of crew with North SOth Div. (Blue Ridge) Vets. Assoc. —21st Sea Mine Force Assoc. Write Ross II. Currier, convention-reunion, Bluefield, W. Va., Aug. 8-11. Wegman, S. J. & Co 63 108 Massachusetts av., Boston. Dr. H. R. 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R. Byrne, natl. secy., H.'{ Plaza bid;;., Pittsburgh, Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 5. Dr. Ohas. L. Jones, secy., Pa. Gilmore City, Iowa. 80th Div.—Copies Over the Top with the 80th 2d Engrs. Assoc. — Reunion, St. Louis, Mo., 7 DONT I available at one dollar. Rush S. Young, Box 309.5, July 18-20, with 2d Div. reunion. Francis J. Ryan, U St. Station, Washington, D. C. chmn., 114-4.5 199th st., St. Albans, N. Y. S9th (Mid-West) Div. Soc. — Annual conven- Vets. 13th Engrs. (Ry.)— Annual reunion, FEEL GREAT! tion-reunion, Omaha, Nebr., Sept. 20. James E, Springfield, Mo.. June 21-23. Jas. A. Elliott, secy.- Darst, pres., Municipal Auditorium, St. Louis, Mo. treas., 721 E. 21st st., Little Rock, Ark. MY BOY FRIf NO THMS TOO Soc. of 17th Inf. —Annual reunion, Columbus, 15th Engrs. Mothers and Wives—22d annual HATES TO GO OUT, BAD. MY Ohio, Aug. 15-17. Robt. E. Shepler, natl. adjt. & reunion for all 1.5th Engrs. and families, West View NIGHTS. HE'S , JOHN'S AL- Q. M„ 1548 E. 133d St., East Cleveland, Ohio. Park, Pittsburgh, Pa., July 6. Mrs. W. H. Green- 130th Inf.—Annual reunion, Albert Lea, Minn., way, chmn., 1961 Perrysville av., Pittsburgh. June 2. Minot J. Brown, Owatonna, Minn. 19th Engrs. Assoc. — Reunion, Altoona, Pa., Vets. 314th Inf. —Annual reunion, Hotel Aug. 10. Geo. M. Bailey, adjt., 319 W. 28th st., Philadelphia!!. Philadelphia. Pa., Sept. 27-211 ( M. Wilmington, Del. Stimpson, secy., 1670 Sheepshead Bay rd., Brook- 31st Ry. Engrs. — 12th reunion, Curtis Hotel, lyn, X. Y. Minneapolis, Minn., June 28-30. F. E. Love, secy.- illiTH Inf. Assoc.—Annual reunion. New \ork treas., lO-lJ^ First St., S. W., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. City, Sept. 28. Edwin G. Cleeland, secy., 6125 34th Engrs. Vets. Assoc. —Annual reunion, JOHNS kXNWi JIM GOTATRIM-SHAPE McCallum street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 31-Sept. 2. George Hemple, 353d (All- secy., 2523 N. Kansas) Inf. Main st., Dayton, Soc. — Annual Ohio. reunion, Hutchin- 5 2d Engrs. son, Kans., Aug. Assoc. R. T. C.— 31-Sept. 2. Regtl. 3d reunion, history available Minneapolis, at $1.60. John C. Minn., July 27- Hughes, secy., 829 29. Families in- East B. Hutchin- vited. C. Gjest- son. vang, comdr., 236

Co. B, 134th P e n n a V , S . . Inf. — Proposed Minneapolis. reunion. Allan R. 60th Ry. En- Holmes, 1105 grs. and Aux. WILL MAKE YOU FEEL GREAT! Garden av., Des Homecoming re- waistline bulge net you down! Streamline Don't let Trim- Moines, Iowa. union. Antlers that dragging, sagging, "bay-window" with a belt that brings Co. I, 140th Hotel, Indian- Shape the slenderizing man's step-in niid-sectiun comfort. One wearer writes: "I found Inf. — Reunion, apolis. Ind., July real nothing so comfortable and restful. It fairly lifts you in Kennett, 12-14. E. and invention. Mo., D. off your tired feet! Thanks for the ies, Aug. 31-Sept. 1. Write L. E. Wilson, pres., 3410 Eula Gallagher, secys., 812 E. 21st st., Little Rock, _there's invigorating all -day support for you. too. S i r enjoy Wayne av., Kansas City, Mo. Ark. Just order this pleasure-to-wear Trim-Shane and appearance- -the posture of Co. K, 160th Inf. —Reunion-dinner, San Bernar- 6 1st R. R. Engrs. Vets. Assoc. —3d reunion, Ft. at once a snappy, youthful sparkling health! dino, Calif., June 15. L. M. Clickner, 213 E. Temple Wayne, Ind., Aug. 31-Sept. 2. E. M. Soboda, secy.- St., San Bernardino. treas., 932 Roscoe St., Green Bay, Wise. Hq. Co., 316th Inf.—Reunion, Legion Home, 309th Engrs. Assoc. — 17th reunion, Hotel THE FLAT FRONT Catasauqua, Pa., June 8. Harold L. Gillespie, secy.' Gary, Gary, Ind., Aug. 9-10. Families invited, „ 605 Howertown av., Catasauqua. Daniel J. Redding pres., 504 Broadway, Gary. 341st Inf. Band—9th reunion, Hotel Del Prado, i-il 1th Engrs. Assoc, —Annual reunion, St. 53d st. & Hyde Park blvd., Chicago, 111., June 29-30. Louis, Mo., Nov. Vincent K. Kemp, .5889 Lotus Bovaro, State st., Chicago. Trim-Shape M. J. 10823 av., St. Louis. Co. F, 34 1st Inf. —Proposed reunion. C. B. 319th Engrs - -Annual reunion, Los Angeles, Jones, Birchwood, Wise. Calif., Aug. 10. K. S. Thomson, secy., 21S Central 332d Inf. Assoc.— 19th reunion, Youngstown, Bank bldg., Oakland, Calif. SUPPORTER- BELT Ohio, Aug. 31-Sept. 1. Henry P. Everitt, secy., 6th Cav. —Reunion, Detroit, Mich., Aug. 19-21. 76 Como av., Struthers, Ohio. O. W. Allen, 616 Poutre av., Schenectady, N. Y. 355th Inf. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Grand S3d Co., 6th Regt. USMC— Reunion, St. Louis, Island, Nebr., Sept. 15-16. Joe Seymour, adjt., 410 July l.x-20, with 2d Div. reunion. Annual "brown E. 8th st,, Grand Island. jug" attendance contest with 66th Co. Marines. Co. B, 3.59th Inf. — Annual reunion, Gainesville, B. Steve Schwebke, Hotel Elliott, Sturgis, Mich.

Tex., Sept. 8. Fred Hopkins, jr., Box 721, Krum, 96th Co., 6th Regt. USMC— Reunion, St . Louis, Tex. Mo., July 18-20, with 2d Div. reunion. L. B. 3d Pioneer Inf. Vets. Assoc. —3d natl. reunion, Malugen, 2708 Arkansas st., St. Louis.

Paul, Minn., 13. write Hq., 4 11 v 1 St. Nov. For roster, H - ; Mosp. No. 22—History ready for distribu- Essex bldg., Minneapolis, Minn., stating company. tion, two dollars. V. V. Miller, historian, 2762 N. 5 1st Pioneer Inf. Assoc.— Reunion, Hemp- 53d st., Milwaukee, Wise. stead, N. Y., Sept. 8. Write John Mack, Gen. Base Hosp. 68—Proposed letter reunion. C. E. Chm., 133 Willow st., Hempstead. "Pick" Purer, 1st Wise. Natl. Bank bldg., Mil- 56th Pioneer Inf. Assoc. —9th reunion, Reser- waukee, Wise. voir Park, Tyrone, Pa., Aug. 4. Jonas R. Smith, Base Hosp. Camp Grant Assoc. —2d reunion, secy., 4911 N. Mervine St., Philadelphia, Pa. YMCA, Milwaukee, Wise, Sept. 16-17. Harold E. 59th Pioneer Inf. Assoc.—5th annual reunion, Giroux, pres., 841 W. Barry av., Chicago, 111. WITH FRONT LACES Fort Dix, N. J., Sept. 28-29. Howard D. Jester, Field Hosp. Co. 127— Reunion, Madison, Wise., secy., 1917 Washington St., Wilmington, Del. July 20. Jack Brausen, secy., 103 S. Carroll st., FOR PERFECT ADJUSTMENT provide per- 127th M. G. Bn. (ex-1st S. D. Cw.y— Reunion, Madison. Trim-Shape is scientifically constructed to support. Lace adjustable front Watertown, S. D., July 29-31. Harry B. Gordon, 118th Amb. Co., 5th San. Trn. Reunion, fect comfort, perfect — panels, made of durable linen cloth, bold your figure the Federal bldg., Watertown. Canton, N. Aug. 1-2. McCracken, pres., C, Guy way you want it merely tighten or loosen the laces Pa., — 310th M. G. Bn.—Reunion, Quakertown, Mrs. Chas. Mease, secy., Canton. and presto! your mid-section is ••Trim-Shaped ! June 8-9. Arthur S. Anders, pres., 46 W. Saucon st., 310th Amb. Co. — 14th reunion, Hotel Hilde- LIGHTWEIGHT- AMAZINGLY STRONG Hellertown, Pa. brecht, Trenton, N. J., June 8. Frank V. Rusling, Pa., Sept. Here's the secret of Trim-Shape— it's ade ONLY 313th M. G. Bn— 21st reunion, Erie, • adjt., Box Livingston, J. 1.1 T , 73, N. of 2- •-e-t-c-h ela 1 1. L. E. Welk, 210 Commerce bldg., Erie. U. S. Army Amb. Serv. —21st reunion, Hotel ]mhi-\ font miracle cloth that' verfully A, 331st M. G. Bn. Reunion, Madison, strong. Washing actually preserves its $295 Co. — Jefferson, Atlantic City, N. J., July 18-20. Write strength. Broad 8-inch metal ribs in front- Wise., Sept. Fred G. Schreiber, 181 Jackson st., Wilbur P. Hunter, natl. adjt., 5321 Ludlow st., supplementary ribs in back—absolutely pre- Madison. vent curling, rolli strong 1 . Philadelphia, Pa. Ask about plan of Camp Crane. ?)astTc taping holds belt snugly at waist ami 11th F. A. Vets. Assoc. — Reunions, Providence, 142d Aero Sqdrn. —6th reunion, Hotel Shelby, thighs. Detachable air-c

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GERMANY'S surprise thrust which a few weeks Our naval and military services, thanks to the education ago allowed her forces to take over Denmark of 1917-18 to which the members of The American Legion without a struggle and to occupy the southern were subjected, have been made ready for any contin- part of Norway with comparative ease was gency the nation is likely to face in the next several accomplished through the Trojan Horse method of get- months. While pacifists were attempting to whittle at ap- ting large numbers of Germans into those countries, ready propriations for national defense in the twenties and to supply aid to the men in uniform who on the signal thirties the Legion was proving to successive Congresses quickly appeared on the scene. With a few traitors in that appropriations for increases in plant, personnel and important key positions the Norwegians saw their de- materiel for the common defense, far from being provo- fenses against the invaders rendered helpless, and when cative and saber-rattling, were national insurance against the meaning of what was happening dawned on the gov- war. The muddle-headed who wished us to disarm ''as ernment, army and people the nazi forces had consoli- an example to other nations" have had their answer in dated the gains obtained in the lightning thrust, and so Europe's last ten months. A few months of actual war- far as Oslo, the capital city, and the greater portion of fare would cost the United States more than the total Southern Norway was concerned it was all over but the national defense bill from 1919 to today. shouting. Little Denmark, faced with a similar situation, We repeat what we have said so many times since the never had a chance. beginning of this European war last September: The In all this there is a lesson of the utmost importance American people are overwhelmingly against taking part to the people of the United States. All our lives we in the war, and we won't go in unless and until our Americans have been saying, ''Eternal vigilance is the national safety is imperiled. If our Monroe Doctrine is price of liberty," but because of the two great oceans flouted we'll fight, and if we fight we'll win. But peace is separating us from the Old World we have, we are com- our watchword, and we don't expect to have to fight for ing to see, too readily felt that we were not in danger. the right of the New World to work out its destiny free East of the Rocky Mountains our people have been in- from European power politics. clined to smile patronizingly when the West Coast States "Fear God and take your own part," counseled that and Hawaii felt that the Japanese in those sectors were Theodore Roosevelt who sent the Fleet around the world in many instances preparing the groundwork for a pos- to show that we could take our own part—but who also sible invasion of North America by the Rising Sun won the Nobel Peace Prize. Without territorial ambitions, empire. Talk of the Japanese fishing boats off California with the earnest desire to live peaceably with all nations, and in Alaskan waters, of the multiple Japanese "bar- the United States today speaks the same language of bers" in Panama conveniently near the Canal, of the pos- disinterestedness and good will that it spoke seventy-five sibility of aliens cutting off many of our great cities years ago in the passage from President Johnson's Annual from their electric power and water—all these were set Message to Congress which is reproduced on this page. down as mere spy-thriller stuff in the E. Phillips Oppen- If despite all its efforts to remain at peace the United heim manner. States is forced into war, there is an insurance against The East and the Middle West are not so sure today the foes from within who will seek by Trojan Horse that those fears of the West Coast were after all couldn't- methods to deliver us up to the enemy. That insurance possibly-happen nightmares. Mexico, with which we have is the nearly 12,000 Posts of The American Legion, been at loggerheads over confiscation of American hold- organized in every county of every State, whose primary ings, has offered to emissaries of foreign powers—specifi- reason for being is to uphold and defend the Government cally, Japan, Russia and Germany—a fertile field for of the United States against whatever force threatens propaganda against the United States, and with a presi- that Government's existence. The more-than-a-million dential election of its own this year to match ours, efforts Legionnaires know what it will take to make good on that to fan the flame against our democracy are being in- pledge, and they'll go through with it, whatever the tensified south of the border by agents of these powers. sacrifice.

CROM the moment of the establishment of our free Con- times we have advanced in wealth and power, but we retain stitution the civilized world has been convulsed by revolu- the same purpose to leave the nations of Europe to choose tions in the interests of democracy or of monarchy, but through their own dynasties and form their own systems of government. all those revolutions the United States have wisely and firmly This consistent moderation may justly demand a corresponding refused to become propagandists of republicanism. It is the moderation. We should regard it as a great calamity to our- only government suited to our condition; but we have never selves, to the cause of good government, and to the peace of sought to impose it on others, and we have consistently fol- the world should any European power challenge the American lowed the advice of Washington to recommend it only by the people, as it were, to the defense of republicanism against careful preservation and prudent use of the blessing. During foreign interference. We can not foresee and are unwilling to all the intervening period the policy of European powers and consider what opportunities might present themselves, what of the United States has, on the whole, been harmonious. combinations might offer to protect ourselves against designs Twice, indeed, rumors of the invasion of some parts of Amer- inimical to our form of government. The United States desire ica in the interest of monarchy have prevailed; twice my to act in the future as they have ever acted heretofore; predecessors have had occasion to announce the views of this they never will be driven from that course but by the aggres- nation in respect to such interference. On both occasions the sion of European powers, and we rely on the wisdom and justice remonstrance of the United States was respected from a deep of those powers to respect the system of noninterference which conviction on the part of European governments that the sys- has so long been sanctioned by time, and which by its good tem of noninterference and mutual abstinence from propa- results has approved itself to both continents. Andrew John- gandism was the true rule for the two hemispheres. Since those son, First Annual Message to Congress, December 4, 1865. 64 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine

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